PublishedOrion, April 2022 |
ISBN9781474622684 |
FormatSoftcover, 368 pages |
Dimensions23.6cm × 15.4cm × 3cm |
'Shot through with spirit and hope, it's one hell of a book' Stylist, Books You Can't Miss in 2022
A nurse at the Family Planning Clinic in Montgomery Alabama, Civil Townsend is passionate about putting choice into women's hands. She brings the option of birth control to their doorsteps, and with it the right to determine their own destinies. Or so she believes.
When she is assigned to administer birth control to two school-age Black girls, the Williams sisters, who live off an old unpaved road in a shack without running water, Civil can't help but feel uneasy. She grows close to the family and becomes fiercely invested in their well-being. And then she makes a shocking discovery: the girls have been involuntarily sterilized. Civil is horrified that such a terrible mistake could have taken place, and vows to get to the bottom of it. She soon learns that this is no isolated event but a pattern, far more serious than she could ever have imagined, targeting poor Black women. Could her clinic be responsible? Had she and her fellow Black nurses been complicit? No matter how ugly, Civil is determined for the truth to be brought to light.
Based on true events, Take My Hand brims with hope, compassion, and the burning pursuit of justice.
Zoe is one of our casual staff members, who is also studying Marine Biology and Environmental Science. She particularly enjoys reading fiction, especially historical fiction and fantasy.
I love love love this! Civil is a 23 year old African-American nurse newly appointed at a family planning clinic with the focus of preventing teen pregnancy in African American girls. The story that unfolds will have you gobsmacked and heart broken at the same time.
Based on a true story, this will have you questioning your own moral boundaries and what is "the greater good"
