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“This is an extraordinary gift of a book, beautiful and devastating—a work of outstanding literary reportage. Read it! It’s the best you will find in many many years.”
—ADRIAN NICOLE LEBLANC, author of Random Family
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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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