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A review by careycarpenter
Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
2.0
It took me forever to finish this book! But I finally did. The historical part is important to know but I’ll tell you it here: The US had a horrible, awful program to sterilize children and women that they deemed inappropriate to have future children. Most of the women and children were poor and black. This is the fictional story of two such children told through the eyes of a nurse working at a medical clinic that was performing the sterilizations by tricking or lying parents and family members into what was happening until it was too late.
The rest of the story was flat and dull. The ending was very unsatisfactory. It’s not the subject matter but because of the subject matter I felt like I should have been more connected and wish that I was more emotionally invested. It felt too removed from the horrors of the reality. Like learning from a 60,000 ft view instead of being on the ground in the space and time with the characters.
The rest of the story was flat and dull. The ending was very unsatisfactory. It’s not the subject matter but because of the subject matter I felt like I should have been more connected and wish that I was more emotionally invested. It felt too removed from the horrors of the reality. Like learning from a 60,000 ft view instead of being on the ground in the space and time with the characters.