Question: There was a strong wind in Clover, VA the day of Henrietta’s funeral. Skloot writes, “Years later, when Henrietta’s cousin Peter looked back on that day, he just shook his bald head and laughed…‘We shoula knew she was tryin to tell us something with that storm’” (92). Throughout Skloot’s book you’ll find a intermingling of the objective and scientific with the subjective and spiritual. Explore this idea in whatever way you like. Why do you think Deborah and her family rely more on faith than medicine? Can spirituality and science (especially medicine) coexist? In what ways?
