Rebecca Skloot - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

join us for this month book club selection in a relaxed setting. we will be discussing the whole book 🙂

there's also a discord group if you can't make the meetup, but would love to share your thoughts or just have a group of book-loving folks to talk to about whatever you're reading

https://discord.gg/FNSJWHsDBF

book description:

"Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in 1951—became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, and more. Henrietta's cells have been bought and sold by the billions, yet she remains virtually unknown, and her family can't afford health insurance. This phenomenal New York Times bestseller tells a riveting story of the collision between ethics, race, and medicine; of scientific discovery and faith healing; and of a daughter consumed with questions about the mother she never knew."