Three recs from Luanne: The Help, Henrietta Lacks, & Hornet's Nest
About "The Help", Luanne says: Set in the early '60s, deep south, with the voices of three women. Page-turning, comical, touching, suspenseful and very enjoyable.
Luanne raved about "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks", about which Publishers' Weekly said: The first immortal human cells, code-named HeLa, have flourished by the trillions in labs all around the world for more than five decades, making possible the polio vaccine, chemotherapy, and many more crucial discoveries. But where did the HeLa cells come from? Science journalist Skloot spent 10 years arduously researching the complex, tragic, and profoundly revealing story of Henrietta Lacks, a 31-year-old African American mother of five who came to Johns Hopkins with cervical cancer in 1951, and from whom tumor samples were taken without her knowledge or that of her family.
And she's onto the third of the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo series, which will be out in May. Lu says: "even better than the first two....!"
