Small Great Things [signed]

Picoult, Jodi

ISBN 10: 0345544951 / ISBN 13: 9780345544957

Published by Ballantine Books, New York, New York, U.S.A., 2015

About this Item

Later printing. 8vo. 470 pages. One quarter light grey paper covered spine over white paper covered boards, red metallic spine titles; signed by author to front free endpaper; color pictorial dust jacket, not price-clipped. Light wear, few small spots to boards, few spots to top edge, some wrinkling to lower edge; light wear to jacket extremities, "Signed Copy" sticker to front. A very good copy in like jacket.

Seller Inventory # X03183

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Small Great Things [signed]
• Publisher: Ballantine Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0345544951
• ISBN 13: 9780345544957
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In "the most important novel Jodi Picoult has ever written" (The Washington Post), the acclaimed author tackles race, privilege, prejudice, justice, and compassion--and doesn't offer easy answers.

"A gripping courtroom drama . . . Given the current political climate it is quite prescient and worthwhile. . . . This is a writer who understands her characters inside and out."--Roxane Gay, The New York Times Book Review

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 Black, 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.

About the Author

Jodi Picoult is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-nine novels, including By Any Other Name, Mad Honey (co-authored with Jennifer Finney Boylan), Wish You Were Here, The Book of Two Ways, A Spark of Light, Small Great Things, Leaving Time, and My Sister's Keeper, and, with daughter Samantha van Leer, two young adult novels, Between the Lines and Off the Page. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband.