a novel Picoult, Jodi 1966- creator author. text bibliography nyu New York Ballantine Books, an imprint ofRandom House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC [2016] 2016 2016 First edition. monographic eng

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470 pages ; 25 cm. 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. Jodi Picoult. Includes bibliographical references. African American nurses Fiction Criminal defense lawyers Fiction Race relations Fiction Racism Fiction PS3566.I372 S63 2016 813/.54 9780345544957 2016023120 DLC 161115 20190501223548.0 935983389 eng