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“Reads like a novel...Deftly crafted...Henrietta Lacks comes fully alive on the page.”
—Eric Roston, Washington Post
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Archive for October, 2009

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Book Tour – Bring HeLa to Your Town

Skloot has just launched an interactive map as part of organizing a grass-roots tour for her upcoming book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. She [...]

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – A Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick

More exciting news for The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks:  It was just selected as a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers pick for [...]

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

Publishers Weekly Starred Review of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Big news: The first pre-publication review of Skloot’s book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, has hit the press, and it’s a rave!  In a [...]

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Doctors took her cells without asking. Those cells never died. They launched a medical revolution and a multimillion-dollar industry. More than twenty years later, her children found out. Their lives would never be the same.

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