Small Great Things, (Hardcover)

from JosephKing6602

Pretty good read....the race story-line was good; and a clever story-line. However, the last-chapter conversion of the white supremacist was a bit trite; and I think the I think the legal angle concerning liability & hospitals should have been beefed up a bit. Overall, an enjoyable book.

from rglossne

An African American nurse in an OB ward in New Haven is told by her supervisor to not treat the baby of a white supremacist, at his demand. The baby dies of complications, despite the efforts of the team of doctors and nurses around him. The nurse is arrested and charged in his death. That's the ...

from DanTarlin

A legal thriller that's really about race in America, Picoult tells of a Black nurse in New Haven who is blamed in the death of the baby of a White supremacist who had insisted that she not treat his son. A murder trial ensues, as the story is told from the perspectives of the father of the dead ...

from setnahkt

Jodi Picoult writes popular novels, often centered around complicated legal cases: “mercy” killings, custody battles, frozen embryos, parental kidnappings. In Small Great Things, it's about implicit and explicit racism; the focus character is a black nurse accused of medical neglect of the child ...

from jothebookgirl

Ruth Jefferson, has been a successful and admits red labor and delivery nurse for more than 20 years. She is widowed after her husband was killed serving in Afghanistan. She has one child, a son, named Edison who an honor student. Ruth an African American living in a very white area of Connecticu...