RaveThe Boston GlobeBesides being about Henrietta, this book also serves as a biography of her cells and the discoveries they made possible...Skloot then skillfully weaves in the story of the Lacks family and their abominable treatment by medical researchers … Skloot’s persistence pays off as it is her presentation of the family and their perspective that lifts this book above science and turns it into an inspiring story, full of poignancy and humanity … It is a well-written, carefully-researched, complex saga of medical research, bioethics, and race in America. Above all it is a human story of redemption for a family, torn by loss, and for a writer with a vision that would not let go.
