Small Great Things -

Jodi Picoult

Ballantine Books

2016

480 páginas

16h 0m

ISBN-13: 9780345544957

Ruth Jefferson, a labor and delivery nurse, begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few minutes later that she's been reassigned to another patient. The parents are white supremacists and don't want Ruth, who is African American, to touch their child. The hospital complies, but the next day, the baby goes into cardiac distress while Ruth is alone on the ward. Does she obey orders or does she intervene?

Ruth hesitates before performing CPR and, as a result, is charged with a serious crime. Kennedy McQuarrie, a white public defender, takes her case, but Kennedy insists that mentioning race in the courtroom is not a winning strategy. Conflicted by Kennedys counsel, Ruth tries to keep life as normal as possible, especially for her teenaged son. And as the trial moves forward, Ruth and Kennedy come to see that what they've been taught their whole lives about others and themselves might be wrong.

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4 (Muito bom)

No começo não estava gostando desse livro, apesar de sempre amar os livros da Jodi.
Foi quando percebi que meu desgosto era por me identificar com coisas que não queria me identificar.
Como a própria Jodi diz, somos todos "work in progress" e precisamos continuar trabalhando para acabar com o racismo passivo que existe dentro de nós