01652cam a2200337 i 4500 277925440 TxAuBib 20161109120000.0 160620s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016023120 9780345544957 0345544951 TxAuBib rda Picoult, Jodi, 1966- Small great things : a novel / Jodi Picoult. First edition. New York : Ballantine Books, an imprint ofRandom House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2016] ℗2016. 470 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. 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 hold most dear. 20161109. African American nurses Fiction. Criminal defense lawyers Fiction. Race relations Fiction. Racism Fiction. TXCMR