Living in the Labyrinth/a Personal Journey Through the Maze of Alzheimers vs The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: Which Should You Read?

Living in the Labyrinth/a Personal Journey Through the Maze of Alzheimers Diana Friel McGowin · 1992 147 pages · ≈ 2 h 43 m · Moderate

Living In The Labyrinth is the story of how one woman found the strength and the courage to cope with a devastating disease that has afflicted five million Americans. Far from being an exercise in self-pity or a…

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot · 2009 ★★★★☆ 4.1 381 pages · ≈ 7 h 03 m · Moderate

“There's a photo on my wall of a woman I've never met, its left corner torn and patched together with tape.”

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in 1951—became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing…