June Community Book Club
Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Time & Location
Jun 22, 2023, 7:00 PM
Quaker Meeting House, 103 Marion Rd, Mattapoisett, MA 02739, USA
Guests
About the Event
Join us for the June Community Book Club at the Friend's Meeting House. We will now do a bi-monthly format to allow more time for the community to read the book selections.
Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez (Author)
Winner of the 2023 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Fiction
“Deeply empathetic yet unflinching in its gaze…an unforgettable exploration of responsibility and redemption.”—Celeste Ng
Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a searing and compassionate new novel about a Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible injustice done to her patients, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wench Montgomery, Alabama, 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend intends to make a difference, especially in her African American community. At the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, she hopes to help women shape their destinies, to make their own choices for their…