Jessica Wapner 

“This reporting takes in a huge swath of science and research, a landscape that changes dramatically over the course of her story. Wapner’s achievement is to help the reader understand why each development is huge in its time and place ... a scientific miracle absorbed into the daily lives of a group of patients no longer united by a fatal diagnosis.” 

— The Washington Post

 

“Jessica Wapner has done two kinds of hard work gracefully: the hard work of understanding cancer genetics and the hard work of rendering that subject into human narrative, lucid explanation, and metaphor. The Philadelphia Chromosome is not just an urgently useful book. It's also an elegant one, put together like a Swiss watch.”
— David Quammen, author

 

An absorbing, complex medical detective story.”
— Kirkus Reviews

 

“Among a small cluster of very good recent books on cancer.”
— The New York Times

 

“[T]he way Wapner repeatedly adds up preceding steps to build to the scientific breakthrough is masterful, making for compulsive, surprisingly emotional reading."
 —The Scientist

 

“Jessica Wapner stitches the whole story together with tenacity, diligence (and humor). This is a wonderful, readable, and highly informative book.”
— Siddhartha Mukherjee, author