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“Indelible...Much like Ann Fadiman's The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, this is a heroic work of cultural and medical journalism.”
—Laura Miller, Salon.com
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

January 31, 2010

Boston Globe Rave Review of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

The Boston Globe loves The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Their review says, among other things:

“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’’ is a fascinating read and a ringing success. It is a well-written, carefully-researched, complex saga of medical research, bioethics, and race in America. Above all it is a human story of redemption for a family, torn by loss, and for a writer with a vision that would not let go.

Full review online 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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