February 3, 2010
New York Times Rave Review of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Unbelievably wonderful review of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks in today’s New York Times!
A thorny and provocative book about cancer, racism, scientific ethics and crippling poverty, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” also floods over you like a narrative dam break, as if someone had managed to distill and purify the more addictive qualities of “Erin Brockovich,” “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” and “The Andromeda Strain.” More than 10 years in the making, it feels like the book Ms. Skloot was born to write. It signals the arrival of a raw but quite real talent.
Full review online here.
