num_pages: 359
description: Inspired by true events that rocked the nation a profoundly moving novel about a Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible wrong done to her patients from the New York Times bestselling author of Wench.Montgomery Alabama 1973. Fresh out of nursing school Civil Townsend has big plans to make a difference especially in her African American 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 worn down one-room cabin shes shocked to learn that her new patients are childrenjust 11 and 13 years old. Neither of the Williams sisters has even kissed a boy but they are poor and Black and for those handling the familys welfare benefits thats reason enough to have the girls on birth control. As Civil grapples with her role she takes India Erica and their family into her heart. Until one day she arrives at the door to learn the unthinkable has happened and nothing will ever be the same for any of them. Decades later with her daughter grown and a long career in her wake Dr. Civil Townsend is ready to retire to find her peace and to leave the past behind. But there are people and stories that refuse to be forgotten.That must not be forgotten. Because history repeats what we dont remember.
language: English
title: Take My Hand
publisher: Berkley