It Reads Like a Thriller.

It's been repeatedly said that fact is stranger than fiction. And that one person can make a difference.

In the case of Henrietta Lacks, both saws are true.

And the reality makes for absolutely riveting reading in Rebecca Skloot's nonfiction page turner, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the story of an African-American woman whose cells provided the basis of many modern medical advances and sparked a debate on ethics.

I've just started reading it and I can't put it down.

http://www.amazon.com/Immortal-Life-Henrietta-Lacks/dp/1400052173/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277245654&sr=8-1