Staff Book Review with Liz

Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult

With the title being based off of the famous quote by Martin Luther King, “If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.”, Picoult explores the themes of institutional racism, personal grief and growth, and community belonging, in a profound and deeply moving way. When an African American labor and delivery nurse is asked not to touch the baby of a white supremacist family, her hesitance to intervene when the baby goes into cardiac distress has extreme repercussions for all. Small great things, while written in 2016, is an ever so timely, intense read that will leave you questioning much that we all take for granted. I highly recommend.

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Staff Book Review by Liz

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman "The moment hung in time like a drop of honey from a spoon, heavy, golden. Despite covering some very complex themes, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine is actually an uplifting story about one women's journey back into the world of love and self-acceptance. A social misfit with a traumatic past, the novel follows the interior workings of Eleanor's mind as she is determined to find her way out of isolation and into the world we call "mainstream". Quirkiness and deadpan humor abound as the novel begs the question what it really means to be human. A light read, that touches upon universal truths everyone can relate to, I highly recommend this book for it's portrayal of what it means to persevere!

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