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“I could not put the book down...Through Lacks, the story of modern medicine and bioethics — and, indeed, race relations — is refracted beautifully, and movingly.”
—Tina Jordan, Entertainment Weekly
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

January 21, 2010

Excerpt of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks in March Oprah Magazine

This week, a lengthy excerpt from The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks hit newsstands in the February issue of O, The Oprah Magazine. It’s not available online yet, but you can find it in stores nationwide. We’ll post a link to it if/when the magazine puts the excerpt online.

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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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