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Small Great ThingsJodi Picoult

Small Great Things

625 pagesFirst published 20173 editions
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"A woman and her husband admitted to a hospital to have a baby requests that their nurse be reassigned - they are white supremacists and don't want Ruth, who is black, to touch their baby. The hospital complies, but the baby later goes into cardiac distress when Ruth is on duty. She hesitates before rushing in to perform CPR. When her indecision ends in tragedy, Ruth finds herself on trial, represented by a white public defender who warns against bringing race into a courtroom. As the two come to develop a truer understanding of each other's lives, they begin to doubt the beliefs they each…

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FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
PaperbackLarge Print Press20187419781432857622
PaperbackBallantine Books2017—9780425286029
EditionHodder & Stoughton20175099781444788037
Race relationsAfrican American nursesCriminal defense lawyersRacismFictionAfrican americans, fictionLawyers, fictionFiction, family life, general