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“Indelible...Much like Ann Fadiman's The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, this is a heroic work of cultural and medical journalism.”
—Laura Miller, Salon.com
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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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