A must read! This is more than just a story of a scientific breakthrough, but also a well-monitored discussion and depiction of race and privilege, and also ethics and moral in the scientific community for the past century or so (be warned, information of scientific studies performed on black people were very disturbing. I was shocked, but absolutely not surprised.) I appreciate Skloot's approach to the story and her truthful depictions of everyone involved. She interviews people on both sides, and writes their statements almost exclusively in full, but then she includes empirical and statistical facts that puts their statements in perspective.

But at its center, this is a book about Henrietta Lacks' life before, during and after her cancer cells became a medical phenomenon and her family's road to uncovering her story and the impact of her unknowing contribution. Please read it