main characters in the immortal life of Henrietta Lacks

Henrietta

lead in book and gets cancer

Debora lacks

Herniettas daughter

rebecca skloot

author

George Gey

scients who grew the main characters cells creating HeLa line of cells

main plot

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks tells how one woman's cells became one of the most important tools in modern medicine while her family remained largely unaware of—and excluded from—the scientific legacy created from her body and rebecca wants to write about Harriettas life Joe gets charged with murder and becomes Muslim

professor Roland

an academic at Morehouse College and knows the Lacks and wants to help

sunny and Lawrence

Debras brothers