Jodi Picoult books are difficult for me to read sometimes because the issues she so painstakingly portrays make me uncomfortable and divided. It's so easy to look only at one side of a situation: my perspective. It's so much more difficult to feel the angst caused by a collision of differing opinions, and somehow come out confused on where to stand, and on what justice should look like.
Ruth, an African American nurse with 20 years of experience, gets charged with negligence in the death of a baby. This book chronicles the story, told in first person by Ruth, her lawyer and her accuser. Picoult does a great job of presenting the emotional upheavals that each face. In the end, I was surprised by the final outcome--it actually ends with a positive twist ending; which I consider a positive from this author!
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