Take My Hand is the story of a young African-American nurse who finds herself administering trial sterilization shots to young African-American girls.

When her boss’ son, Isaac, returns from the army Rachel agrees to marry him and move with the ambitious and charismatic man to the Badlands of South Dakota

A man wakes up to use the bathroom, lying on the floor with a gashing wound on his head. Another man appears which might be his deceased father

An easy read and well written story. The narrative is clean and sometime even lyrical. The characters are multi-dimensional, vivid and fully realized

Set during the 1960’s, when the civil rights movement was gaining speed and atrocities went unnoticed, the book’s existence could provide life threatening