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“Rebecca Skloot has written a marvelous book so original that it defies easy description ... It’s part The Wire, part The Lives of the Cell, and all fascinating.”
—CARL ZIMMER, author of Microcosm
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

November 14, 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 some of book’s backstory, a short excerpt from the book (longer excerpt forthcoming in O, the Oprah Magazine), also a story Skloot wrote about the book tour she’s organizing (posted about previously here).

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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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