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1973, Alabama. Civil Townsend est une jeune infirmière afro-américaine. Convaincue de l'utilité de son travail au planning familial, elle est dévouée à ses patientes. Mais, très vite, elle s'interroge : pourquoi impose-t-on une contraception à Erica et India, treize et onze ans ? Elles sont si jeunes ! La famille a-t-elle donné son accord ? Prise de doutes, Civil enquête sur ces pratiques. 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 marqué l'Amérique, ce roman est un témoignage percutant et émouvant, une leçon d'espoir et de dignité.
Édition adaptée facile à lire : malvoyance ; fatigue visuelle ; troubles de l'apprentissage ; troubles cognitifs ; troubles DYS ; dyslexie ; dysgraphie ; TDA/H ; alphabétisation, FLE. -
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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