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A moving story, even if it was a little flat for me

Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

May 14, 2023 by booktrovert Leave a Comment

I feel as though I SHOULD have liked this novel much more than I actually did. It is related to the shameful history of forced sterilization that took place in the US, mostly impacting poor, non-white women, that was exposed shortly after the revelations of the Tuskegee experiment came to light. If you don’t know much about the Tuskegee experiment, I highly recommend the Nova documentary on it, which is a little dated but still relevant. The section that explains how many researchers, especially black […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Dolen Perkins-Valdez

booktrovert's CBR15 Review No:33 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Dolen Perkins-Valdez ·
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“There is no greater right for a woman than having a choice.”

Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

April 1, 2023 by Sophia Leave a Comment

I found Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez (2022) on NPR’s Best Books List under “eye-opening reads.” It takes place in 1973 Montgomery, Alabama where Civil Townsend, a young black woman of relative wealth starts her first nursing job at a government-run, family planning clinic. Civil travels to a one-room shack as part of her job and meets Erica and India. Erica and India are only 13 and 11 years old. Their mother recently died, and they live in cramped and unsanitary conditions with their father and grandmother. Civil’s […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Sophia's CBR15 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: Dolen Perkins-Valdez ·
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