Take My Hand
“Take My Hand” free pdf book download from here or read online. This book is a compelling novel by Dolen Perkins-Valdez. Set in Alabama post-segregation, it follows the journey of Civil Townsend, a Black nurse who stumbles upon a shocking injustice inflicted upon her young patients and takes it upon herself to bring it to light. The narrative alternates between 1973 and the present day, underscoring the lasting repercussions of past events. The book, inspired by real-life incidents, won the 2023 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Fiction.
About the Author
Wench is set at an Ohio resort where slaveholders took enslaved women they treated as mistresses, a real place, and it follows four of those women across several summers. Take My Hand is built on the Relf sisters, two Black girls sterilised in Alabama in…
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