The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Please join us to discuss The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot on Monday, May 16th, 2022 at 6.30pm at the Symposia Bookstore on Washington Street in Hoboken.

''Rebecca Skloot, a specialist in the field of science and medicine, has authored The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks that has become one of her bestselling books on the market. The book was published in 2010 and it remained on The New York Bestseller list for a long period of time.
This book is totally about the subjects of science and medicine, in which, the author illustrates a young woman who is struggling hard against cervical cancer. The story shows how this young patient and all around her are affected by the disease, and how it helps scientific research to result from her disease. The book also brings in focus the social classes and racism perspective that make the book to become the bestselling on the market.

The author writes in the book that she got most of the information by studying the journal of the young woman’s daughter. This was not sufficient amount of research to produce the book. She, therefore, made more research on other contents so that she could find enough information to author the story in detail.

In addition to it, the writer put Oprah Winfrey into the story that came with the idea to turn the story into a Home Box Office movie. Overall, the book is an interesting read, which revolves around social and racism issues highlighting the plight of African-American people who suffered considerably in the United States. ''

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