TY  - BOOK
AU  - Picoult, Jodi,
TI  - Small great things
SN  - 9781760110505
U1  - 813.6 23
KW  - Racism
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Nurses
KW  - England
KW  - Criminal defense lawyers
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Legal stories
KW  - gsafd
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - 'If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.' Martin Luther King Jr..'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
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