Twenty years ago, I started a book after reading a news story about an African-American undercover cop who was shot four times in the back on the subway by his white colleagues. I've wanted to do that for a very long time. PICOULT: I'd wanted to write about racism.
SIMON: What made you want to tell a story like this? "Small Great Things" is the latest novel by Jodi Picoult, whose bestsellers have sold more than 14 million copies around the world. Should she disobey the order she's been given by the hospital or touch the baby to try to save him? And does her slight hesitation doom the newborn boy? But Davis, their baby, goes into cardiac distress while Ruth is on duty, briefly alone in the nursery. Brittany and Turk Bauer are white supremacists. Ruth is barred from tending to a newborn baby by the baby's parents. It's what we project on them that makes them ugly. Ruth Jefferson, a labor and delivery nurse at a hospital in Connecticut, says every baby is born beautiful.
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