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as gripping as it is moving

one she must protect at all costs

Soon afterward

meeting people who feel like home

unignorable voice in American fiction

Take My Hand searchfilter_Disaster as gripping as it isWinner of the 2023 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work Fiction Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a searing and compassionate new novel about a Black nurse in post segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible injustice done to her patients, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wench Montgomery, Alabama, 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend intends to make a difference, especially in her African