Small Great Things -

Jodi Picoult

Allen & Unwin

2016

480 páginas

16h 0m

ISBN-13: 9781760110499

'I don't want that nurse touching my baby.' Those are the instructions from the newborn child's parents. However, when the baby goes into cardiac arrest, Ruth, a nurse of twenty years' experience, sees no option but to assist. But the baby dies. And Ruth is charged with negligent homicide.

Ruth is shattered and bewildered as she tries to come to terms with her situation. She finds different kinds of support from her sister, a fiery radical, and her teenage son, but it is to Kennedy McQuarrie, a white middle-class lawyer, to whom she entrusts her case, and her future.

As the two come to develop a truer understanding of each other's lives, they begin to doubt the beliefs they each hold most dear. In order for the privileged to prosper, they come to realise, others have to suffer. Racism takes many forms, and is reinforced and underpinned by the structures of our society.

In gripping dramas like Nineteen Minutes, My Sister's Keeper and The Pact, Jodi Picoult has explored the big issues of our time through characters whose lives resonate with us. Here we see once again her unrivalled ability to immerse us in a story whose issues will linger with us long after the final page has been finished.

Resenhas (3)

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