Description
Shot through with spirit and hope, it's one hell of a book' Stylist, Books You Can't Miss in 2022 Montgomery, Alabama. 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend has big plans to make a difference in her community. At the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, she intends to help women make their own choices for their lives and bodies. But when her first week on the job takes her down a dusty country road to a tumbledown cabin, she's surprised to find that her new patients are 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 their welfare benefits, that's reason enough to have the girls on birth control. As Civil grapples with her new responsibilities, she takes India and Erica into her heart and comes to care for their family as though they were her own. But one day she arrives at their door to discover the unthinkable has happened, and nothing will ever be the same. Inspired by true events and a shocking chapter of American history, Take My Hand is a novel that will open your eyes and break your heart. An unforgettable story about love and courage, sisterhood and solidarity, it is also a timely and hopeful reminder that it only takes one person to change the world.
| EAN: | 9781474622691 |
| Farbverschnitt: | Generell werden die Bücher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen. |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 11.05.2023 |
| Produktform: | Kartoniert |
| Autoren: | Perkins-Valdez, Dolen |
| Seitenzahl/Blattzahl: | 359 |
| Themenüberschrift: | FICTION / Literary |
| Keyword: | fiction books; literary fiction; delia owens; american literature; celeste ng; women's fiction; family life; where the crawdads sing; Such a Fun Age; the vanishing half; The Secret Life of Bees; contemporary women fiction; contemporary fiction; coming of age; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; American dirt; American history; the beekeeper of Aleppo; Kiley Reid; Alice Walker; The Colour Purple; The Color Purple; Oprah Winfrey; women's rights; Red at the Bone; The Help; literary classics; An American Marriage; Tayari Jones; Girl Woman Other; Bernardine Evaristo; african American; african american literature; teenage pregnancy; the help book; the help kathryn stockett |
| Fachschema: | Amerikanische Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung~Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung |
| Fachkategorie: | Tatsachenberichte, allgemein~Moderne und zeitgenössische Belletristik~Historischer Roman~Belletristik: Themen, Stoffe, Motive: Gesundheit & Krankheit, Biografien: allgemein |
| Imprint-Titels: | Phoenix |
| Verlag: | Orion Publishing Group |
| Länge: | 194 mm |
| Breite: | 122 mm |
| Höhe: | 30 mm |
| Gewicht: | 342 gr |
| Genre: | Importe |