Award-winning writer, Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks is a nonfiction book of a poor black farmer whose cells, taken without her knowledge, have become one of the most important tools in the evolution of medicine. Henrietta’s cells have been bought and sold all across the world for millions of dollars yet her family still cannot afford health insurance. The book is of Henrietta’s life from the time that she discovered she had cancer to the many things that he immortal cells have accomplished for science.

Skloot’s book is amazing. This is a book that everyone should read at least once in their lifetime. The book explains how people that live below the poverty line are easily influenced and taken advantage of. It also provides readers with lots of information about early scientific discovery.

Winner of several awards, including the 2010 Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Nonfiction and a Medical Journalists’ Association Open Book Award, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” was featured on over 60 critics’ best of the year lists.