Small Great Things
About this book
"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"--Provided by publisher (from OCLC # 952139156).
Subjects
- african american nurses
- african americans, fiction
- avocats de la défense pénale
- criminal defense lawyers
- fiction
- fiction, family life, general
- fiction, legal
- fiction, women
- infirmières noires américaines
- large print books
- large type books
- lawyers, fiction
- livres en gros caractères
- procès (meurtre)
- race relations
- racism
- racisme
- relations raciales
- romans, nouvelles
- trials (murder)
- white supremacy movements