A review by martha_is_reading
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Did not finish book. Stopped at 25%.
I was enjoying the book and found the history of the HeLa cells fascinating; while the treatment of Henrietta Lacks and her family was sad to listen to. I would have carried on but about a quarter of the way through there were a lot of graphic descriptions of the physical and sexual violence that Henrietta’s children were subjected to after her death and I just found it too much 
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