The GRCC One Book Selection Committee is pleased to announce the selection for 2011/2012:

From the cover: Doctors took her cells without asking. Those cells never died. They launched a medical revolution and a multi-million dollar industry. More than twenty years later, her children found out. Their lives would never be the same.

Find The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and related titles in Holman Library. 

“Writing with a novelist’s artistry, a biologist’s expertise, and the zeal of an investigative reporter, Skloot tells a truly astonishing story of racism and poverty, science and conscience, spirituality and family driven by a galvanizing inquiry into the sanctity of the body and the very nature of the life force.” - Booklist