Rebecca Skloot is the author of
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. One of her six favorite books, as shared at
The Week magazine:
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
In an incredible story of cultural miscommunication and of a tragic clash between scientists and nonscientists, a girl born to a Hmong refugee family in California meets a heartbreaking fate. It's a dramatic and important story that Fadiman tells without demonizing either the doctors or the family, and it was an early model for me as I wrote The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
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another book on the list.
--Marshal Zeringue
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