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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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Skloot has been the subject of numerous articles, profiles, and interviews on television and radio and in various magazines and newspapers—from NPR to CBS News to Rapportage to the Baltimore City Paper. Coverage includes:

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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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