- A young girl discovers what life really means after finding out she has an incurable disease. - Gives insight into living with illness, disability, and confronting one’s mortality at a young age. - Life Expectancy fits into a growing canon of books about disabled and neurodiverse characters, few of which currently deal with Juvenile Huntington’s Disease (which the main character has), and what confronting a reduced life expectancy might look like for a young person. - Au