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—SUSAN ORLEAN, author of The Orchid Thief
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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Rebecca Skloot is currently in the midst of a four-month long book tour for which she is traveling nationwide talking about her new book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.  For the full story of the tour, and how and why Skloot organized it herself, see her story, “The Immortal Book Tour,” in Publishers Weekly. For a schedule of Skloot’s speaking events, see the calendar below. Check back often — events are being added regularly. If you’d like to invite Skloot to give a talk in your area, please look through the schedule to find an available time slot you’d like to fill, and contact her directly. You can also access her schedule via her Booktour.com page, where you can subscribe to an up-to-date feed of her tour dates, and more.

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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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