# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Book Club: Take My Hand
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 17 Jun, 2026 at 05:00 pm – Wed, 17 Jun, 2026 at 06:00 pm (-05:00)
- **Event Description**: Join us for book club to discuss Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez. Copies of the book will be available at the library one month before book club meets. All are welcome to attend. 
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Montgomery, Alabama 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend has big plans to make a difference, especially in her African American community. At the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, she intends to help women make their own choices for their lives and bodies.

But when her first week on the job takes her down a dusty country road to a worn down one-room cabin, she’s shocked to learn that her new patients are children—just 11 and 13 years old. Neither of the Williams sisters has even kissed a boy, but they are poor and Black and for those handling the family’s welfare benefits that’s reason enough to have the girls on birth control. As Civil grapples with her role, she takes India, Erica and their family into her heart. Until one day, she arrives at the door to learn the unthinkable has happened and nothing will ever be the same for any of them.

Decades later, with her daughter grown and a long career in her wake, Dr. Civil Townsend is ready to retire, to find her peace and to leave the past behind. But there are people and stories that refuse to be forgotten. That must not be forgotten.

Because history repeats what we don’t remember.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/shiocton/book-club-take-my-hand/200029890434927
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- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 4

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Shiocton
- **state**: WI
- **country**: United States
- **location**: W7740 Pine St, Shiocton, WI, United States, Wisconsin 54170
- **lat**: 44.44296
- **long**: -88.57789
- **full address**: W7740 Pine St, Shiocton, WI, United States, Wisconsin 54170

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Book Club: Take My Hand being held?
  - **A:** Book Club: Take My Hand takes place on Wed, 17 Jun, 2026 at 05:00 pm to Wed, 17 Jun, 2026 at 06:00 pm at W7740 Pine St, Shiocton, WI, United States, Wisconsin 54170.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Book Club: Take My Hand?
  - **A:** Book Club: Take My Hand is organized by Shiocton Public Library.

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