![]() Civil finds herself getting closer and closer to the family. Civil does what she can for the family, helping them move into a government-subsidized apartment, and finding their father, Mace, a job. She is even more disturbed when she learns that the depo provera shot had caused cancer in some animal studies. She is also shocked that she was instructed to give the depo provera birth control shot to them when they are so young. She is horrified by their living situation. Their mother recently died, and they live in cramped and unsanitary conditions with their father and grandmother.Ĭivil’s father is a doctor, and she grew up in town in drastically different circumstances. Erica and India are only 13 and 11 years old. Civil travels to a one-room shack as part of her job and meets Erica and India. ![]() ![]() I found Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez (2022) on NPR’s Best Books List under “eye-opening reads.” It takes place in 1973 Montgomery, Alabama where Civil Townsend, a young black woman of relative wealth starts her first nursing job at a government-run, family planning clinic. ![]()
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