Ultimately, the first explicit mention of the condition isn't even directly spoken, but overheard: "Is that baby an albino?" another nurse asks as Urquhart's husband, Andrew, walks by holding the newborn, Sadie, in his arms. John's hospital where Urquhart gives birth, cluing us in a bit more as we move into the book's opening chapter. She goes on to call the condition, by turns, a disorder, a medical mystery and an inheritance – one for which people are both "revered" and "seen as harbingers of evil." "That hair is some white," comments a nurse at the St. "My daughter was born with a genetic condition I knew nothing about," Urquhart writes in her opening sentence. The prologue to Emily Urquhart's Beyond the Pale circles its central topic cautiously and namelessly.
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