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“Rebecca Skloot has written a marvelous book so original that it defies easy description ... It’s part The Wire, part The Lives of the Cell, and all fascinating.”
—CARL ZIMMER, author of Microcosm
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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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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