![]() ![]() ![]() In Take My Hand, inspired by shocking real-life events, Perkins-Valdez tells the story of Civil Townsend, a Black doctor who seeks justice for wrongs done to her patients decades before in 1970s Alabama.īooks will be available for purchase at the library on event night.Ī book signing will follow the presentation. By Joshunda Sanders Published: Save Article Norman E. The current chair of the board of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, she teaches creative writing at American University in Washington, D.C. Take My Hand, by Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Offers Not Absolution but Accountability The illuminating new novel from the author of Wench hones in on the horrific forced sterilization of mostly poor recipients of welfare benefits in the 1970s. She has been a finalist for two NAACP Image Awards, the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award, and the Robert Olen Butler Fiction Award, and she won the 2011 First Novelist Award from Black Caucus of the American Library Association. Using “gorgeous, compassionate prose” to continue “our national conversation about people working together to heal our communities” ( The Washington Post), Dolen Perkins-Valdez is the author of The New York Times bestselling novels Wench and Balm. In conversation with Asali Solomon, author of the novels Disgruntled and Days of Afrekete ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |