Title :   The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Author :  Rebecca Skloot
Publisher : Crown
Place and date of publication:  In the United States of America the two february 2010 written in 368 pages.

Rebecca L. Skloot is a freelance science writer, she got her diploma from The Metropolitan Learning Center in Portland, Oregon. After she went to Portland Community College, she received a BS from Colorado State University and an MFA in creative non fiction from the University of Pittsburg.
She is a former vice president of the National Book Critics Circle and has taught creative writing and science journalism.

If the book was chosen for my review it's because of the topic studied in class which was about segregation during the twentieth century.
This book is talking about a black woman, Henrietta Lacks , mother of five children, suffering from a cervical cancer and while she was in Hopkins, the only colored hospital for black and poor people during segregation, doctors took her cells without telling or asking her permission or otherwise her family agreement.
Her cells were and still are special because they are the only cells which survived out of a body because they're cancerous cells so they developed and multiplied.
Nobody knew about where they came from apart doctors who took them until Rebecca Skloot decided to do some research and write a book about them.

This book is hugely different from the others dealing with the same topic because we see through a real story how black people suffered.
I found this story interesting and moving because we know how colored people were treated during the Segregation however what we didn't know and that this book taught us is that they were also treated as guinea pigs for medical research without people knowing.
I think everybody has to , and when I say ' have to ' I insist, read this story to know what colored people have been through during the Segregation and understand how the twentieth century American society discriminate us.