Take My Hand (Thorndike Press Large Print Core)

About this book

"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 whenher 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 India and Erica are children--just eleven and thirteen 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"--