Dolen Perkins-Valdez, TAKE MY HAND
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Dolen Perkins-Valdez, the New York Times bestselling author of Wench, joins Zibby to discuss her latest novel, Take My Hand, which grapples with the painful history of eugenics and coerced sterilization in America. Dolen shares what inspired her to write a fictionalized version of what happened to the Relf sisters, what she hopes the story will add to the current conversation surrounding reproductive rights, and what her writing process has looked like since the pandemic. The two also talk about the need for more writers' retreats, and what Dolen is working on next.
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| 0:58.5 | Thank you. at ZCastnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. Dallin Perkins Valdez is the author of Take My Hand. |
| 1:02.2 | She is the New York Times best-selling author of Wrench and Balm |
| 1:05.2 | and was a finalist for two N.A.A.C. Image Awards and the Hurston-Rite Legacy Award |
| 1:10.1 | for Fiction. She was awarded the first novelist |
| 1:12.4 | award by the Black Caucus of the ALA. Welcome, Dolan. Thank you so much for coming on, moms. Don't |
| 1:17.6 | have time to read books to discuss Take My Hand a novel. Thank you for inviting me. |
| 1:22.6 | My pleasure. Okay, can you please tell listeners what Take My Hand is about? So Take My Hand is inspired by the |
| 1:32.8 | true story of the Ralph Sisters. They were two little girls who were sterilized without their |
| 1:40.0 | family's permission at age 12 and 14 years old in 1973. My book takes the perspective of one of the |
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