![]() ![]() The owners of the clinic however do not share her will to help. Civil Townsed is a nurse who wants to help young girls with birth control and sex education and so thinks that working at this Alabama clinic is going to be where she can do that. We’re told the story of two young black girls from the perspective of a black doctor. This novel takes places in the 1960s and 1970s so this is recent history and that makes it all the more shocking! How a government can dictate to young girls what to do with their bodies is shocking and is sadly relevant even today. How the US forced young black girls to have sterlisations. I admit that I had never heard of the true story by which this novel is inspired. #Bookreview BookTrail the locations in Take My Hand Genre: Inspired by true events and a shocking chapter of American history BookTrail the locations in Take My Handĭestination : The mountain peak of Manaslu “Death Zone”Montgomery Alabama ![]() However, she is soon embroiled in the lives of two young Black girls, who are mistreated by the clinic and soon become national headlines for all the wrong reasons…. ![]() In short, a young nurse starts to work at an Alabama clinic thinking she is going to help people and achieve her dreams of nursing and caring. It looks at of the most inhumane chapters of American history. This novel is inspired by one of the most shocking cases in America I have ever heard of. Take my hand and read Dolen Perkins-Valdez ![]()
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