Take My Hand

Such a hard and heartbreaking book, but necessary and beautifully written. The 2nd half (the trial) got pretty slow for me.

"𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞, 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐞. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐞𝐱𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭. 𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐥𝐲." 𝕋𝕒𝕜𝕖 𝕄𝕪 ℍ𝕒𝕟𝕕 - Dᴼᴸᴱᴺ Pᴱᖇᴷᴵᴺs-Vᴬᴸᴰᴱᴢ ⭐ ( 15 / 10 ) (Yes over 10 stars) I 👏🏾 was 👏🏾in 👏🏾my 👏🏾feelings 👏🏾 the ENTIRE ( let me say it again THEEE 𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐑𝐄 book. Listen, I like millions of women just dealt and are still...read more

This is a book that everyone should take the time to read. Whether it's a book club or just to experience this historical fiction, this book was an insightful read. The author brings you to follow a nurse during the time of Roe vs Wade not during the post trial but to witness the other side of reproduction. The struggle and choices (or lack of) for birth control and rights to reproduce. It is a heavy read in the fact it is based off true events t...read more

Take My Hand is a fictional work based on actual events. In 1973, Mary Alice Relf, age fourteen, and her sister, twelve-year-old Minnie Lee, both mentally disabled, were surgically sterilized after their illiterate mother signed with an "X," mistakenly believing she was authorizing the provision to her daughters of birth control shots. It was not an isolated incident. In the 1970's, many poor women who received government assistance, particularly...read more

This is a poignant tale of poverty and the vulnerability of being brown in America. The story centers around Civil, a young nurse, who is hired to work at a family planning clinic in her hometown of Montgomery Al at the time of Roe v Wade. Her first patients are young sisters who have been put on Depo-Provera by the organization and Civil investigates the drug and does what she can to navigate social services to help the family. What ends up ...read more