The cover says that Small Great Things is about prejudice and power. It is a powerful novel about a White Supremacist who loses a baby at birth. Sad enough but the nurse could be at fault! The novel revolves around the ethnicity of the nurse who is black.
Jodi Picoult has a superb vehicle to examine our morals, attitudes, and prejudices. It makes you think about your own values and although you might see yourself as non-prejudicial it certainly provokes thought. Her observations are canny and educational.
It is an enjoyable read with a great cast of characters and evokes immense sympathy for the nurse. My only worries that is one, it is written by a white author (does she capture all the problems of non-white races?), and secondly, it seemed from a very early stage in the book that there was no case to answer by the black nurse. One law for all?
