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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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January 1, 2012
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January 31, 2012

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Kirsten
Feb 22, 2012 rated it it was amazing
If there is one book I would recommend to read for non-fiction, this is it. Wow...I could not put the book down, and read it in less than three days. The book is meticulously researched, and tells of three parallel stories -- the story of the HeLa cells and the scientists who worked with them, the story of Henrietta and her daughter Deborah who never really knew her mother, and the story of Rebecca Skloot's search for the truth about HeLa. I think this last story may be the most overlooked, and ...more
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