Small great things - Jodi Pico

Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult ... At the end of her novel "Small Great Things," author Jodi Picoult says she always wanted to write a novel about racism in the United States, and from the beginning, she emphasized that she "grew up as a white woman with class privilege in society," and she conducted many years of research and numerous personal interviews to be able to express the voices of people who are not like her: men and teenagers, people with suicidal tendencies, wives of teachers who are abused, and victims of rape. She says that what drove her to write those stories was her anger and her desire to give them a voice so that those people's awareness of racism would increase. The plot of the novel is exciting and its structure strong, moving at a good pace with a smooth style. Jodi Picoult benefited from all stereotypes of Black people: in the Black mother, the widowed Black woman, the angry Black woman, the mother and the maid, the teenager, and the distinguished preacher. The alternating chapters clearly show the difference in perspectives between Ruth, the white racist father Turk Power, and Ruth's lawyer Kennedy McQuarry. The author succeeded when she let the story deepen in Kennedy’s narration. The story of a white woman whom we think is more liberal than she actually is. It is Kennedy’s journey to reconcile with her racist relatives and the privilege that whites enjoy when she first realizes it. The spread of American racism — this is the true story. Number of pages: 576 Year of publication: 2023 Publisher: Ninoo House for Studies, Publishing, and Distribution