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May 01, 2017Waterdoggle rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
An African_American labor nurse is asked to keep an eye on the infant of a white supremacist from whose care she had earlier been removed. I won't give away plot points here, but the happy ending after the grueling trial felt a little too unlikely and the final plot twist not at all credible. Kirkus wrote a snarky review of this book but I have recommended it to patrons. It is worth reading to meet Ruth Jefferson and to see how she has worked around racism her whole life, and to gain a glimpse of the world of white supremacists (don't know where Piccoult learned about this!). The book is based on a real case in which an African American nurse sued her hospital in Flint, MI conceded to a man's request that no black nurses care for his infant (spoiler alert: the hospital lost the suit). Soon to be a major motion picture with Viola Davis.