A family is devastated by information that their mother, long dead, is helping people live longer, happier lives all around the world. How can this be? Rumors spread that scientists have cloned the matriarch and that the woman they love now has duplicates of herself around Europe. Still, another suspicion is that she's been shot into space, stuffed into a bomb, and inserted with AIDS, suffering alone in some cold lab halfway around the planet. The stress of all this news cripples her children, but what is the truth? A young writer and scientist takes it upon herself to help the family reach the thrilling conclusion of their mother's story.
The writer and scientist: Rebecca Skloot
You're listening to the conclusion of our deep dive into The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
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Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir and Michèle Fitoussi
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson (Part 2)
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson (Part 1)
Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway, by Susan Jeffers
Charlotte's Web, by E. B. White
Such a Fun Age, by Kiley Reid
Sula, by Toni Morrison
Bonus: The Chat We Couldn't Fit Into Our Last Episode, Catch And Kill by Ronan Farrow
Catch and Kill, by Ronan Farrow
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
My Sister the Serial Killer, by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Educated, by Tara Westover
Animal Farm, by George Orwell
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