After Hours Book Group Meets June 18

University Park's After Eight book club is hosting its final meeting of the season on June 18, where they will be discussing The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot.

From Amazon.com:

From a single, abbreviated life grew a seemingly immortal line of cells that made some of the most crucial innovations in modern science possible. And from that same life, and those cells, Rebecca Skloot has fashioned in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks a fascinating and moving story of medicine and family, of how life is sustained in laboratories and in memory. Henrietta Lacks was a mother of five in Baltimore, a poor African American migrant from the tobacco farms of Virginia, who died from a cruelly aggressive cancer at the age of 30 in 1951. A sample of her cancerous tissue, taken without her knowledge or consent, as was the custom then, turned out to provide one of the holy grails of mid-century biology: human cells that could survive--even thrive--in the lab. 

The After Eight Book Group meets from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. on the third Tuesday of every month between September and June. Contact Laura Donnelly at 301-927-6550 for more information.