A Pleasure Is Mine

This is your third novel, and it draws upon history for its premise. Can you talk about that true story that inspired this novel? Sure. So i remembered reading about these two young girls, the relf sisters, who had been sterilized without the consent of their family. They were 12 and 14 years old. And i had read in the montgomery advertiser a statement by the head supervising nurse at the clinic who had originally been sued along with the clinic. She said in her defence that sterilizing the girls must have been ok because all the nurses who worked at the clinic were black,. and the woman who was given the statement was a white woman.