The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks in Gaston Library

May 25, 2017 Peyton Taylor rated it really liked it

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I had to read it for my AP Biology class as our final and it was truly amazing. At times, it was upsetting and even shocking. The only reason that I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 is because of the fact that it got a bit repetitive towards the end of the book. However, the last 3 or 4 chapters are enthralling and offer a great conclusion to any possible loose ends. It was a very interesting and easy read. Rebecca Skloot does a great job of explaining each story that ...more

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Sep 25, 2011 Jennifer Lange rated it it was amazing

Excellent book. While the science of the HeLa cells was interesting, it was the relationships and the people of the family that I was most toched by. This book helped me understand more about others' points of view - the family members in the book were so un-like me. It took me a while to understand where these people were coming from, but that understanding really opened my eyes to how some people think. Very interesting. ...more

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Dec 29, 2019 Nicole rated it really liked it

Shelves: non-fiction, science, history, biography, audiobook, on-overdrive, read-2019, ocls

Consumed as an audiobook - the narration was very well done. Skloot weaves what could have been a wildly incoherent chain of events into a fascinating tale of a woman, her questionably-procured cells, and the repercussions of that procurement to this day.

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