I think one of the things that made it have less of an impact on me was that Skloot kept writing as if it were this big secret that was kept from the family, when people had been writing about Henrietta Lacks in major, mainstream publications for over twenty years by the time she started her book, and the family had participated in a documentary about Henrietta several years earlier. She made it seem as though no one had ever explained it to them, when it was pretty clear that people had been explaining it again and again, just as she did--over and over--without the Lacks family being able to grasp what was being said. The whole idea that Henrietta Lacks had never been honored appropriately, when the way Skloot found them in the first place was through the guy who had organized an entire conference around her...

Anyway, I'm really glad that you enjoyed it so much and that you encouraged me to read it.