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4.23 AVERAGE
4.23 AVERAGE
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A deeply important story that hurts all the way through. (Note on the audio book—I don’t think it was necessary to have the narrator voice certain characters with racialized accents. In places where the accents were essential to telling the story, vocal performers from the speaking communities in question should have been hired.)
Content Warnings
Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Sexual violence
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Content Warnings
Graphic: Cancer, Infidelity, Racism, Medical content, Medical trauma
emotional
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inspiring
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medium-paced
challenging
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Truly amazing what the Lacks family has gone through and what HeLa cells have done to and for science. This book was unlike any other non fiction biography/science book I’ve ever read. The author did a good job weaving the past with the more current stories of the family. Worth a read.
informative
medium-paced