Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years’ experience. During her shift, Ruth 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 with their request, but the next day, the baby goes into cardiac distress while Ruth is alone in the nursery. 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 gives unexpected advice: Kennedy insists that mentioning race in the courtroom is not a winning strategy. Conflicted by Kennedy’s counsel, Ruth tries to keep life as normal as possible for her family—especially her teenage son—as the case becomes a media sensation. As the trial moves forward, Ruth and Kennedy must gain each other’s trust, and come to see that what they’ve been taught their whole lives about others—and themselves—might be wrong.
With incredible empathy, intelligence, and candor, Jodi Picoult tackles race, privilege, prejudice, justice, and compassion—and doesn’t offer easy answers. Small Great Things is a remarkable achievement from a writer at the top of her game.
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audiobook Jodi Picoult終於不再寫涉及道德睏境的罕見病故事 而是轉而寫…醫鬧… 冗長的敘述聲音實際都是為瞭結尾White Supremacist的內心轉變做的鋪墊 故事本身不如作者後記裏說作為白人作傢為何要寫種族題材的解釋好
评分我覺得有些事情能讓我聯想到自己，黑人的民權運動是不是我們亞裔也應該藉鑒。Ruth和白人實習生見病人，病人自動認為白人實習生是老闆這種事情，幾乎每天都發生在我的身上。作者的視角是對的。等著羅伯茨的法庭戲。
评分多視角講述方式沒毛病 可是總是重復講述而不推進情節就有點受不瞭瞭……最後的closing argument超級燃！
评分小而偉大的事，講述黑人護士遭遇不公的事情。聽書所得。
评分多視角講述方式沒毛病 可是總是重復講述而不推進情節就有點受不瞭瞭……最後的closing argument超級燃！
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