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“As if someone had managed to distill & purify the more addictive qualities of 'Erin Brockovich,' 'Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil' & 'The Andromeda Strain.'”
—Dwight Garner, The New York Times
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Archive for November, 2009

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks in Booklist

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is featured in the December issue of Booklist, with a wonderful starred review (see below) and “Story Behind the [...]

Saturday, November 14th, 2009

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks on Cover of Publishers Weekly, an Excerpt, and More

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks was featured on the cover of Publishers Weekly this week. Inside that issue was a profile of Skloot with [...]

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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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