Hold my hand
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Hold my hand
14.99 €
Inspired by true events, an emotional and deeply moving novel about a black nurse who, in the American South, seeks justice for her female patients.
1973, Alabama. Fresh out of nursing school, Sibyl Townsend has big plans; she dreams of making a difference in the world. At a birth control clinic, she intends to help women take charge of their own bodies and lives. Civil goes to visit her first patients, and a dusty country road leads her to the shabby shack where Erika and India live. Sivil is horrified to discover that her patients are children, the girls are only eleven and thirteen years old. They have never even kissed a boy yet, but they are black and poor, which means that, from the point of view of white social service officials, they are ready to procreate, and therefore need preventive measures. Civil decides that she will fight this injustice, and she seems to succeed. She radically changes the lives of the girls, their father and grandmother, but... But tragedy still overtakes them. Decades later, the universally respected Dr. Sivil Townsend is ready to retire, find peace, and put the past behind her. But there are people and stories that refuse to be forgotten. That cannot be forgotten.
1973, Alabama. Fresh out of nursing school, Sibyl Townsend has big plans; she dreams of making a difference in the world. At a birth control clinic, she intends to help women take charge of their own bodies and lives. Civil goes to visit her first patients, and a dusty country road leads her to the shabby shack where Erika and India live. Sivil is horrified to discover that her patients are children, the girls are only eleven and thirteen years old. They have never even kissed a boy yet, but they are black and poor, which means that, from the point of view of white social service officials, they are ready to procreate, and therefore need preventive measures. Civil decides that she will fight this injustice, and she seems to succeed. She radically changes the lives of the girls, their father and grandmother, but... But tragedy still overtakes them. Decades later, the universally respected Dr. Sivil Townsend is ready to retire, find peace, and put the past behind her. But there are people and stories that refuse to be forgotten. That cannot be forgotten.
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