Essence: Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Author Of 'Take My Hand,' Talks The Black Female Body And America's History Of Involuntary Sterilization
In the New York Times bestselling historical fiction novel Take My Hand, professor Dolen Perkins-Valdez, author of the acclaimed books Wench and Balm, offers a warm, yet honest welcome to revisit an ...
Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Author Of 'Take My Hand,' Talks The Black Female Body And America's History Of Involuntary Sterilization
“Take My Hand” by Dolen Perkins-Valdez is a fictionalized retelling of a 1970s Supreme Court case concerning the sterilization of two sisters, ages 12 and 14, in Montgomery, Alabama. While examining ...
Yahoo: “Take My Hand,” by Dolen Perkins-Valdez Offers Not Absolution but Accountability
“Take My Hand,” the latest journey by novelist and professor Dolen Perkins-Valdez into historical fiction, is a jewel of a book but not an easy one to read. The author of the 2010 bestseller “Wench” ...
Ayesha Rascoe talks to Dolen Perkins-Valdez about her new novel "Take My Hand," which fictionalizes a 1973 involuntary sterilization case, and about why she's drawn to history as a novelist. What does ...
Perkins-Valdez (Take My Hand) shines in this exquisite tale of a woman who learns about her Black family’s trailblazing history from her estranged grandmother. Nikki Lovejoy-Berry, a real estate agent ...
LAist: Historical novel 'Take My Hand' focuses on involuntary sterilization of Black women
Historical novel 'Take My Hand' focuses on involuntary sterilization of Black women
HAPPY LAND. By Dolen Perkins-Valdez. Berkley. 368 pages. $29. “Happy Land” is a revelatory triumph, excavating a lost but essential story of southern history (and by extension of American history) ...