Small Great Things: A Novel
A #1 New York Times Bestseller and soon to be major motion picture. With richly layered characters and a gripping moral dilemma that will lead readers to question everything they know about privilege, power, and race, Small Great Things is the stunning new page-turner from Jodi Picoult. With incredible empathy, intelligence, and candor, Jodi Picoul...show more
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Love the several narratives & different perspectives. Reading about the different walks of life made this several books in one, making it multi-faceted.
At first, this book made me SO angry, I had to stop reading it! I was so pissed. But I wasn't sure who I was mad at. The 3 POVs who tell the story are so well crafted-- you feel like you know them, and understand them, and even if you disagree with them-- you get where they are coming from. If this book doesn't make you think, feel, cry, rage, and/or come to a realization about yourself, and people of your own culture and race then you are not re...read more
Did not know Colson Whitehead was co-author. Explains so much. To learn how a life changing incident impacts the characters based on both race and class is quite frankly a revelation! Highly recommend.
I really struggled with this one. I love the writing from multiple perspectives. I see and resonate with the issues of racism. I just hated the unfairness of this situation. A nurse, doing her best for a baby, is accused by skinhead parents. Her life is completely disrupted. It points at how powerless we really are. And yet, the story points also to the important truth that we need to speak: that for years privilege has been skewed in favor of wh...read more
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