TY  - BOOK
AU  - Perkins-Valdez,Dolen
TI  - Take my hand
SN  - 9781474622684
U1  - 813.6 23/eng/20220413
PY  - 2022///
CY  - London
PB  - Phoenix Books, an imprint of The Orion Publishing Group
KW  - Reproductive rights
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Nurses
KW  - Alabama
KW  - African American women
KW  - Involuntary sterilization
KW  - Eugenics
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Social problem fiction
KW  - lcgft
N1  - First published in the United States by Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
N2  - Montgomery, Alabama. 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend has big plans to make a difference in her community. At the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, she intends to help women make their own choices for their lives and bodies. But when her first week on the job takes her down a dusty country road to a tumbledown cabin, she’s surprised to find that her new patients are just eleven and thirteen years old. Neither of the Williams sisters has even kissed a boy, but they are poor and Black, and for those handling their welfare benefits, that’s reason enough to have the girls on birth control. As Civil grapples with her new responsibilities, she takes India and Erica into her heart and comes to care for their family as though they were her own. But one day she arrives at their door to discover the unthinkable has happened, and nothing will ever be the same
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