Take My Hand

by Author Dolen Perkins-Valdez

• Publisher Berkley
• Year published 2022
• ISBN: ISBN 978-0593337691
• Number of pages 368 pages
• WorldCat

• Topic(s) History of Medicine

About the Book

Book description

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.

About the Author

Author description

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.

Official website of Dolen Perkins-Valdez

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