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Historical Fiction Book Club

Thu, Apr 20

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At Birch Tree

Join us for a discussion of Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez with your host Hope!

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Historical Fiction Book Club
Historical Fiction Book Club

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Apr 20, 2023, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM

At Birch Tree, 11 W Market St, Leesburg, VA 20176, USA

About the event

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 lives and bodies.

But when her first week on the job takes her along a dusty country road to a worn-down one-room cabin, Civil is shocked to learn that her new patients, Erica and India, are children--just eleven and thirteen years old. Neither of the Williams sisters has even kissed a boy, but they are poor and Black, and for those handling the family's welfare benefits,…

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