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A review by mrs_a_is_a_book_nerd
Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
4.0
3.75
I enjoyed the narrator and her perspective, and was wholly absorbed in the historical basis that informed the plotline. I had not only not heard of the forced sterilizations of Black, brown, and poor people in the 60s and 70s, I was unfamiliar with the Tuskegee syphilis "study" that was its predecessor. Boy, have we succeeded in making absolute monsters of ourselves...over, and over, and over again.
Two things bothered me in the plot:
First, Depo-Provera comes into the plotline early and often, with doubts painted as to its safety and the characters pushing to look into it further, seeing as it seemed to cause cancer in lab animals. This question is never fully answered/ addressed.
Second, (and maybe I blew by it...I read before bed), where did Anne come from? Who's her father?? Did Civil marry? What the heck?!?
Overall, though, it was an engaging, insightful read.
I enjoyed the narrator and her perspective, and was wholly absorbed in the historical basis that informed the plotline. I had not only not heard of the forced sterilizations of Black, brown, and poor people in the 60s and 70s, I was unfamiliar with the Tuskegee syphilis "study" that was its predecessor. Boy, have we succeeded in making absolute monsters of ourselves...over, and over, and over again.
Two things bothered me in the plot:
First, Depo-Provera comes into the plotline early and often, with doubts painted as to its safety and the characters pushing to look into it further, seeing as it seemed to cause cancer in lab animals. This question is never fully answered/ addressed.
Second, (and maybe I blew by it...I read before bed), where did Anne come from? Who's her father?? Did Civil marry? What the heck?!?
Overall, though, it was an engaging, insightful read.