![]() ![]() Ruth Jefferson, a graduate of Yale Nursing School, has been a neonatal nurse, the only black nurse, in the labor and delivery unit of Mercy-West Haven hospital in Connecticut for 20 years. These tenets direct the action of the novel, which lays out the problems all too clearly. Picoult’s conclusions, so to speak, are that being white carries many privileges white people don’t ever think about, that white people, however progressive, cannot recognize racism in themselves, and delude themselves into believing they don’t “see” color. Now she has done her research, enrolled in social justice workshops, talked with many, experts and laymen, black and white. ![]() ![]() She states in her Author’s Note, which comes at the end, that she wanted for many years to write a novel about the fraught topic of racism in America but lacked confidence to handle the subject properly. Jodi Picoult is a terrifically successful author of popular novels, many of which have been best sellers, the most popular of which may be “Leaving Time.” ![]() This is the third of the three finalists for the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction, given to a novel which “features the role of lawyers in society and their power to effect change.” Read all three and cast your vote at by June 30. ![]()
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