The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot

 See scott's review and thanks to scott for the recommendation. I want to add to it.

1. It is so sad to me how uneducated, poor, unhealthy, and involved in crime (i will come back to the money in a minute) the lacks family is/was. I am not saying these things are their fault. It is just sad to me.

2. Respect to the author. I could never have written this book because deborah would have driven me nuts. Rebecca had the correct firm but friendly mentality (and she lived in pittsburgh woot woot). If I am a hiring manager I am hiring Rebecca due to her patience, persistence, and fearlessness. 

3. Yes the lacks family should get money from the cancer cells. It seems to me however (from reading this book) that there are no legal grounds to achieve this. I tend to agree with the oil analogy made by the austrian doctor. 

4. I say read this one instead of using the audiobook. They try to do real accents in the audio book, but they are weird/funny (asian, austrian, southern black etc.). The audio production is off in my view. 

5. Finally and I will echo my grandma's point here. Sometimes the authors of these books go too far off track. Think of Candace Millard describing the animals in the amazon too much during "the river of doubt". Unbroken is also over researched at times. I would say some of the information in this book is not needed. I am thinking at least of the part about the other uses of the word hela (superhero etc.). I advise authors to tell the story straight without too much off target information. But maybe the publishing company tells them they need more words idk.

not the best book ever but page it and enjoy!!