Small Things, Small Aggressions
Something different on my blog today: A Book Review followed by a short fictional story I wrote inspired by the book. SMALL GREAT THINGS – by JODI PICOULT A hefty book (almost 500 pages) that had me both, captivated and enraged. It’s a book about racism and white supremacy: White supremacist parents demand that a Black neonatal nurse not touch their baby. There are three points of view (POVs) in the book: Ruth, the black nurse; Kennedy, her white female lawyer who takes on Ruth’s ensuing court case; Turk, the baby’s white-supremacist father. There’s a lot packed into this book, scenes created to show how stereotyping affects the everyday lives of people of colour, situations a white person can never fathom, scenes ranging from the simple act of being followed and watched in a department store, to being accused of murder. I thought there were too many stereotypical incidents worked in to make a point: a Korean nail salon; an Indian restaurant where the young daughter of the white lawy...
