Comments on: Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Book Tour Trailer Part 1

By: Roberta Wolk

Roberta Wolk — Mon, 03 May 2010 13:39:57 +0000

What an amazing and compelling story! And you told it so beautifully. Will you be touring in the Chicago area at all?

By: Carmen

Carmen — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:27:06 +0000

I just watched the first Immortal Book Tour clip with a lump in my throat. After reading your amazing book, I couldn’t help but be moved by the comments of Jeri, Kimberley, and Sonny Lacks. It’s wonderful to know that Henrietta’s family is finally getting some well-deserved recognition. BTW, the book is one of the best works of nonfiction I’ve ever read – so compelling on so many different levels that I had to start rereading it as soon as I’d finished. If you can, please bring the Immortal Book Tour to Vancouver, BC!

By: Holly

Holly — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 22:03:08 +0000

Just finished the audiobook, and it was such a superb listening experience. I’m glad to find your blog and website–great photos and videos! Wishing you the best of success in another fabulous topic for your next book.

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:32:04 +0000

I’m glad to have read your book because I learned much from it and I’m super happy you are donating proceeds from the book to the foundation you created for the family. How much of the book’s proceeds will go towards the foundation? I think your hard work is most deserving of a good portion of the proceeds but was curious if you felt any moral dilemma with this issue as your book frequently talks about people making money off the Lacks’ family.

By: Lisa Sarasohn

Lisa Sarasohn — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:53:09 +0000

As I savored each page of your superb book, I kept hearing a refrain: the words that Elinor Gadon writes in The Once and Future Goddess, A Symbol for Our Times:

“Women’s wombs are [our] power centers, not just symbolically but in physical fact…. The power of our womb has been stolen from us.”

Henrietta’s story has mythic, archetypal resonance with the Dark Goddess, the Black Madonna — in Jungian author Marion Woodman’s words, the Big Chocolate Woman.
For thousands of years, patriarchal culture has literally denigrated women, women’s pro-creative power, the Sacred Feminine. Henrietta’s story illustrates this process exactly.
I hope her story moves us to honor, rather than exploit, the Sacred Feminine. I hope her story inspires women all the more to reclaim our womb-power — the power to promote creation in whatever dimension we choose.
Lisa Sarasohn
author of
The Woman’s Belly Book:
Finding Your True Center for More Energy, Confidence, and Pleasure
Asheville, NC

By: Glenda

Glenda — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:59:59 +0000

I read the book with a lump in my throat nearly the entire time it took to read it with tears. I find it so hard to fathom people being treated in such a manner. The people who treated this family so callously should be ashamed. Greed is a terrible task master…and there is such a thing as “just doing the right thing.” Thank you for writing such an important book.
Bravo!
Glenda

By: RiverRun Bookstore

RiverRun Bookstore — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:09:17 +0000

Woohoo! Thanks for including pics from New Hampshire. Good luck out there in “The Other Portland” as we call it.
RiverRun
Home of the Brave
Portsmouth, NH

By: Terri Grayum

Terri Grayum — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:58:12 +0000

Rebecca, I just finished your book and it is truly a work of art and of heart. Such an important story, and the way you told it makes it so accessible for so many. Congratulations! And congrats on the much deserved accolades.
I plan to see you at Powell’s in April!
Terri – in very rainy Portland

By: Claire Yar

Claire Yar — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:49:40 +0000

I read your book and from the first page to the last I couldn’t put it down. I loved how you got into the smallest detail and clearly you have great respect for both the Lacks family and the science field. I felt it was a very unbiased view of the entire story in which you presented both sides fairly. I cannot wait until you come to Tempe in May. I will be there…will you be bringing the Lacks family? They sounds like a wonderfully colorful family who I’d love to have to my house for dinner! (and you too!). Thank you for bringing this very important story to life!

By: Mark F.

Mark F. — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:34:33 +0000

I really wish I had been able to attend your talk when you came to Madison, WI. I planned on going, but I came down with a bad cold, and I figured you and everyone else wouldn’t have appreciated my presence there. Maybe next time.