Take My Hand

4.5 rounded up
What a powerful story! Erica and India's situation really emphasized for me the prevalence of medical racism America and how it still exists today. Civil, their nurse, is a persistent and caring woman who loves these girls as her own and ultimately fights for justice because she was a part of the problem. I loved how the nuances of the situation were handled (the intersectionality of race, gender and class in the American medical field) and how there were many perspectives to this story, from the victims themselves to their families and even the medical professionals who knowingly and unknowingly were apart of the situation. This was a really really great and important historical fiction that I would recommend to anyone. Definitely a new favorite!