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Take My Hand

by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

  • Berkley
  • 2022
  • ISBN: 978-0593337691
  • 368 pages
  • WorldCat
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About the Book

Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a profoundly moving novel about a Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible wrong done to her patients. ebook icon Audio book icon
Dolen Perkins-Valdez
About the Author

Dolen Perkins-Valdez is the New York Times bestselling author of Wench and Balm. She was a finalist for two NAACP Image Awards and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for fiction, and she was awarded the First Novelist Award by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. She lives in Washington, D.C. with her family.

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