May Book: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

From the publisher: "Henrietta Lacks, known by scientists as HeLa, was a poor tobacco farmer decended from slaves. Her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The cells had launched a multimillion-dollar industry that sells human biological materials, yet her family never saw any of the profits.

As Rebecca Skloot so brilliantly shows, the story of the Lacks family—past and present—is inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of."

Please RSVP if you intend to come and change it if something comes up.

Barnes & Noble opens at 10am on Sunday.

Plan to order something to drink from the Cafe, then find us in the cafe seating area. I'll bring a sign for the table with the group name.