Civil is tasked with giving the young girls shots of Depo-Provera-a form of birth control that she quickly realizes has not been FDA-approved.
Her first two patients are Erica and India Williams: 13- and 11-year-old Black girls living in rural poverty. Weinberger, Take My Hand tells the story of Civil Townsend, an ambitious young nurse working at a family planning clinic in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1973.
I read Dolen Perkins-Valdez’s novel Take My Hand in one day and have been thinking about it constantly ever since.
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