Skloot is on a four-month, 51-city book tour that she organized and is largely paying for through speaking honorariums at colleges and institutes.Ĭrown anticipated the book would strike a chord with readers. Now, Crown is capitalizing on a wave of overwhelmingly positive reviews, and keeping the chatty, photogenic author in front of the cameras. Klayman compared to "a well executed military operation." Months ago, Crown unleashed 3,000 advance readers editions-three times as many as usual-not just to book critics and literary bloggers but to science bloggers, bioethicists, editors of African-American Web sites and magazines, college professors and 50 active Amazon reviewers, says Tina Constable, Crown's vice president and publisher. Her efforts were propped up by the publisher's campaign, which Ms. Lacks' descendants and tell their story is interwoven throughout.Ī science journalist and daughter of poet and writer Floyd Skloot, the author has been aggressively promoting the book herself for months through her blog and Facebook and Twitter accounts. Lacks is undergirded by a story about race relations. Skloot's own self-publicity blitz and a book with the bestseller qualities that generate word of mouth. The book's quick rise was the product of a trifecta of traditional marketing tactics, Ms. Such overnight success is increasingly rare in publishing-especially for a relatively unknown author writing about cell tissue. ” - Read an excerpt from 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks' “I couldn't have imagined it then, but that phone call would mark the beginning of a decadelong adventure. Lacks' descendants, most of whom were unaware of the extent of her contributions to medicine, learn the truth five decades after her death.
The book has elements of a detective tale, exploring the mystery of how one woman's cells proliferated when all previous attempts to grow human cell cultures had failed, and the unfolding family drama as Ms. Lacks, who died of cervical cancer in 1951. Skloot attributes the book's early success to the remarkable story of Ms. Hollywood producers made overtures even before there was a complete manuscript (one described a film adaptation as "'Erin Brockovich' meets 'Jurassic Park,'" says Ms. Scientists working with her cell cultures, known as HeLa cells, have developed cancer treatments, vaccines, and in-vitro fertilization and cloning technology. Lacks, an African-American whose cell tissue was harvested in 1951 without her consent and went on to be replicated billions of times. Skloot's book spans eight decades and tells the story of Ms. The title shot up Amazon's best-seller list to No. Within two days, Crown reprinted the book three times, rushing a total of 100,000 copies into print. Skloot's "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," her debut, sold out the first day it went on sale.
This tear-jerking story of an unsung hero is just as good (even better in some ways) than the best-selling book.Last week, Ms.
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Renee Elise Goldsberry's portrayal of the young Henrietta Lacks shows the vibrant life of a woman history tried to forget, but who was as full of life and caring for others in her lifetime as her cells remain to this day. When Skloot tells Deborah that "there isn't a person alive who hasn't benefited from your mother's cells," one can feel the sad irony in Deborah's mix of pride in her mom and anger that many members of the Lacks family struggled financially and with health issues. Oprah Winfrey as Deborah Lacks brings a conviction to the now-deceased Deborah that speaks volumes to the eternal relationship between mother and child. In the midst of all the wrongs, however, the uplifting parts of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks show that healing can happen in any situation, no matter how complicated. This incredible true story, medical mystery, and family drama shows how fascinating, damaging, and anger-provoking the injustices of history can be.
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