Neither are sexually active, or even know any boys, but that doesn’t matter to the clinic or its manager. Sent out to do a single job – give Erica and India their birth control injections, she is stunned by their young ages and the fact that India isn’t even menstruating yet. She wants to help them, but struggles against Mace Williams’ pride to do so. In a leaking shack with a dirt floor the family live in one room full of squalor. She isn’t fully prepared for the shocking depths of poverty poor Black people are living in when she meets the Williams family. Newly qualified as a nurse, Civil Townsend is the middle class daughter of a doctor and an artist, raised in a well to do neighbourhood. Indeed it’s inspired by the real case of two young sisters who were permanently sterilised without consent.
Wade entered the statute books, it covers issues around reproductive rights, and especially the forced sterilisation of young African American girls – something that really happened. My thoughts: this is a very timely book, set in the year Roe v. An unforgettable story about love and courage, sisterhood and solidarity, it is also a timely and hopeful reminder that it only takes one person to change the world. Inspired by true events and a shocking chapter of American history, Take My Hand is a novel that will open your eyes and break your heart. But one day she arrives at their door to discover the unthinkable has happened, and nothing will ever be the same. 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. 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. At the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, she intends to help women make their own choices for their lives and bodies.īut 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. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend has big plans to make a difference in her community.
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