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1973, Alabama. Civil Townsend est une jeune infirmière afro-américaine, fraîchement diplômée et embauchée dans un planning familial à Montgomery. Convaincue de l'utilité de son travail, elle est toute dévouée à ses patientes et assure les suivis de grossesse, mais aussi les prescriptions de contraceptifs aux jeunes filles à sa charge.
Lorsqu'elle rencontre Erica et India Williams, treize et onze ans, la vie de Civil va radicalement changer. Car, très vite, elle s'interroge : pourquoi doit-elle leur imposer une contraception alors qu'elles sont si jeunes ? Est-ce que la famille a donné son accord ? Prise de doutes, Civil commence à enquêter sur les pratiques en place dans le milieu médical de son époque. Au risque de perdre son emploi, elle mettra tout en oeuvre pour dévoiler une des politiques les plus innommables des États-Unis.
Inspiré de faits réels qui ont profondément marqué l'Amérique, ce roman est un témoignage percutant et émouvant, une leçon d'espoir et de dignité. -
A nurse at the Family Planning Clinic in Montgomery Alabama, Civil Townsend is passionate about putting choice into women''s hands. She brings the option of birth control to their doorsteps, and with it the right to determine their own destinies. Or so she believes. When she is assigned to administer birth control to two school-age Black girls, the Williams sisters, who live off an old unpaved road in a shack without running water, Civil can''t help but feel uneasy. She grows close to the family and becomes fiercely invested in their well-being. And then she makes a shocking discovery: the girls have been involuntarily sterilized. Civil is shocked that such a terrible mistake could have taken place, and vows to get to the bottom of it. She soon learns that this is no isolated event but a pattern, far more serious than she could ever have imagined, targeting poor Black women. Could her clinic be responsible? Had she and her fellow Black nurses been complicit? No matter how ugly, Civil is determined for the truth to be brought to light. Based on true events, Take My Hand brims with hope, compassion, and the burning pursuit of justice.
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TAKE MY HAND - THE INSPIRING AND UNFORGETTABLE BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK
Dolen Perkins-Valdez
- Phoenix
- 12 Mai 2022
- 9781474622677
A nurse at the Family Planning Clinic in Montgomery Alabama, Civil Townsend is passionate about putting choice into women''s hands. She brings the option of birth control to their doorsteps, and with it the right to determine their own destinies. Or so she believes. When she is assigned to administer birth control to two school-age Black girls, the Williams sisters, who live off an old unpaved road in a shack without running water, Civil can''t help but feel uneasy. She grows close to the family and becomes fiercely invested in their well-being. And then she makes a shocking discovery: the girls have been involuntarily sterilized. Civil is shocked that such a terrible mistake could have taken place, and vows to get to the bottom of it. She soon learns that this is no isolated event but a pattern, far more serious than she could ever have imagined, targeting poor Black women. Could her clinic be responsible? Had she and her fellow Black nurses been complicit? No matter how ugly, Civil is determined for the truth to be brought to light. Based on true events, Take My Hand brims with hope, compassion, and the burning pursuit of justice.
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