The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot

I loved this book. I came across this book because my book club is reading it this month. Rebecca Skloot writes a sort of biography of Henrietta Lacks. Henrietta Lacks is a black woman in the 1950s who died from cervical cancer. Her doctor had taken a sample of her cancer cells and that cell was the first one to survive in a lab. It was responsible for many breakthroughs in science, especially the cure for polio. But no one knew in the beginning whose cells they were. Rebecca followed up with Henrietta's daughter Deborah and there in begins the story of how the book is written. Lovely book!