![]() ![]() In Take My Hand, inspired by shocking real-life events, Perkins-Valdez tells the story of Civil Townsend, a Black doctor who seeks justice for wrongs done to her patients decades before in 1970s Alabama.īooks will be available for purchase at the library on event night.Ī book signing will follow the presentation. The current chair of the board of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, she teaches creative writing at American University in Washington, D.C. Civil is a recent graduate of the nursing school at. RASCOE: So start by telling us about your main character, Civil Townsend. ![]() She has been a finalist for two NAACP Image Awards, the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award, and the Robert Olen Butler Fiction Award, and she won the 2011 First Novelist Award from Black Caucus of the American Library Association. DOLEN PERKINS-VALDEZ: The pleasure is mine. Wench, her best-selling debut novel, looked at the lives of slave womenbut Perkins-Valdez took them off of the oft-used setting of the Southern plantation. ![]() Using “gorgeous, compassionate prose” to continue “our national conversation about people working together to heal our communities” ( The Washington Post), Dolen Perkins-Valdez is the author of The New York Times bestselling novels Wench and Balm. Dolen Perkins-Valdez is known for work that uses historical settings to examine complicated issues of humanity, relationships, race, and class. In conversation with Asali Solomon, author of the novels Disgruntled and Days of Afrekete ![]()
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