Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks tells the gripping story of "a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in 1951—became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, in vitro fertilization, and more."
Learn five new word lists taken from this work of creative nonfiction: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Foreword and Prologue, Part 1: Life, Part 2: Death, Part 3: Immortality, Afterword.
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