Have You Voted Yet, Bookie?

Hi, everyone:

As this post goes up, last month's ohsoclose runner-up, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, leads our April book poll. . .but will it win this time? That's up to you, Bookies: Vote for it—or your pick of the other three books below—by 11:59 p.m. ET this Monday, March 21. Our winner will be announced on Tuesday.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot

The fascinating true story of a poor Virginia migrant worker whose cancerous tissue yielded cells that became the catalysts for stunning medical breakthroughs.

The Invisible Bridge, by Julie Orringer

Hungarian-Jewish architecture student Andras Levi falls in love while studying in Paris in 1937, then returns to Budapest and struggles to keep his family safe amid the Nazis' rise to power. A haunting debut novel.

Swamplandia!, by Karen Russell

A declining alligator-wresting theme park serves as the fantastical setting for Russell's first novel, in which a young girl struggles to keep her family together in the face of threats both real (her Floridian family's impending bankruptcy) and otherworldly (her sister's elopement with a ghost).

Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte

Bronte creates a heroine for the ages in Jane, an orphan raised by her loveless aunt who matures into the strong-willed governess of a manor with a terrible secret.

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