"Black scientists and technicians, many of them women, used cells from a black woman to help save the lives of millions of Americans, most of them white. And they did so on the same campus--and at the very same time--that state officials were conducting the infamous Tuskegee syphilis studies."

Wow, what an incredible and tragic story. I can't believe (...but also can...) that in all of the science classes I've taken, not one has mentioned Henrietta. I loved getting the scientific story about her cells, but I appreciated the author making the book mostly about her family and how they dealt/were dealing with the discovery and aftermath of all this new knowledge.

All in all, probably one of my favorite books of the year.