
When a Black nurse is forbidden from caring for a white baby, America's racial tensions explode into a courtroom battle. Jodi Picoult's #1 NYT bestseller - soon starring Viola Davis - sparked tears from readers who finally saw themselves represented in literature.
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What happens when doing your job becomes a crime? Ruth Jefferson, a Black labor and delivery nurse with twenty years of flawless service, faces this impossible reality when a white supremacist father demands she never touch his newborn son. The hospital complies without hesitation, placing a Post-it note on the chart: "NO AFRICAN AMERICAN PERSONNEL TO CARE FOR THIS PATIENT." Days later, when that same infant stops breathing while Ruth stands alone in the nursery, she freezes-caught between her medical oath and an explicit order not to touch him. Those seconds of hesitation will destroy her life. Despite her immediate CPR and the arrival of the full medical team, baby Davis dies. The grieving parents accuse Ruth of murder. At 3 AM, police shatter her front door, drag her out in her nightgown, and tackle her teenage son to the ground while neighbors watch in silence. This isn't just a story about one nurse's nightmare-it's about the racism we've learned to ignore, the privilege we refuse to acknowledge, and the uncomfortable conversations America desperately needs to have.
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