The Cure

“Amazing… . The Cure explores human courage under the most trying circumstances.” – New York Post

“Anand, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter with the Wall Street Journal, delivers a detailed and heart-wrenching account of a father’s extraordinary efforts to save his children and find a cure for a debilitating and life-threatening disease. – Booklist

“A well-researched, skillfully written, inspiring account of one man who wouldn’t take no for an answer.” – Boston Globe

“Inspiring.” – Rutland Herald

“Suspenseful, poignant…Anand’s The Cure is a wild rollercoaster ride at the edge of medicine.” – Jonathan Weiner, author of His Brother’s Keeper

“Brilliantly written! This is the story of a marriage and family that survived despite incredible odds.” – Abbey Meyers, president of the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD)

“Intensely moving, powerful…This gripping account will inspire and sustain hope for all parents whose children are stricken with disease.” – Louis Freeh, former FBI director

Geeta Anand is a journalist and author who serves as dean and professor at Berkeley Journalism. Her stories on corporate corruption won the Wall Street Journal a Pulitzer Prize in 2002, and she was lead reporter in a series on healthcare that was a finalist in 2003. Her book The Cure–about a dad’s fight to save his kids by starting a biotech company to make a medicine for their untreatable illness–was made into the Harrison Ford movie Extraordinary Measures in 2010. She worked as a journalist for twenty-seven years, most recently as a foreign correspondent for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal in India.