A heavy-handed fable of race and racism in America
FICTION: Small Great Things, By Jodi Picoult, Hodder & Stoughton, €19.95
On October 31, 2012, according to a 2013 lawsuit, a note was posted on an assignment clipboard at the Hurley Medical Center in Michigan in the US, saying that African-American nurses could not care for a certain newborn infant.
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