“Take My Hand” by Dolan Perkins-Valdez
Published by Berkley
Finished 2/7/23 – 3/4 stars
This is a very sad piece of historical fiction that I’m glad I read because it is a part of history I was unaware of. I knew that some poor black communities had essentially been used as lab rats in the past, but I didn’t know that woman and young girls were being sterilized. That is just horrific! Not only does the US government need to stop interfering with women’s reproductive rights in general, no human should ever be subjected to medical practices of any kind against their will and/or without being given complete details of the situation to be able to provide knowledgeable consent.
Politics aside, it was a good story. I don’t think it needed the dual timelines of
1973 and 2016 though. I think it would
have been better to simply have one story in the 70s and then an update at the
end to let us know what happened to everyone.
I felt like throwing a little bit about 2016 every once in a while just
distracted from the main story.
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