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

4.0

I was actually surprised with how much this book kept up its momentum, simultaneously telling and becoming the story of the research done to write the book. One of the blurbs on the cover was someone saying that they "couldn't put it down" and for the first half, I didn't understand why. But as the author meets Deborah, Henrietta Lacks' daughter, and the book becomes about their time together, I got it, and had to force myself to set the book down at 4am.

I felt like the book brought out questions that need to be discussed about science and ethics, but there is an unstated question also, one about education. I wonder... how many public school kids today don't know what cells are?