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“Funny, tender, sometimes violent ... a cast of characters whose anger, generosity, pride and improbable grace make them impossible to forget.”
—Christine Wicker, Dallas Morning News
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

February 18, 2010

Entertainment Weekly Gives The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks an “A”

In a wonderful review of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the current issue of Entertainment Weekly gives Skloot’s book an “A,” saying: “Through Lacks, the story of modern medicine and bioethics — and, indeed, race relations — is refracted beautifully, and movingly.” Read the full review 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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