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Jodi Picoult Does Racism

Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult

February 4, 2017 by Julie 2 Comments

Jodi Picoult is one of those authors I think of as “easy reading.”  Her books are written in a way where thing are pretty well laid out for the reader.  She does tackle topics that can be controversial or morally ambiguous but does it in a gentle way where she’s not alienating most readers.  I found out that my mom’s book club was reading this book and purchased a copy for her, and figured I would read it myself. The book is the story of Ruth Jefferson, a black Labor and Delivery nurse, who works in a hospital and loves […]

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2/4/2017 Julie's CBR9 Review No:3 |
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| Tags: Book Club Reads, courthouse, hospitals, Jodi Picoult, Racism, white guilt, white supremacists | Category: Book Club, Fiction | 2 Comments


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