I have a lot of advanced review copies of books on my Kindle, and because of this, it’s not difficult to lose track of the themes of the books as I queue them up to read.  It was a wildly unfortunate coincidence that the day I opened Jodi Picoult’s newest novel Small Great Things was the same day that five Dallas police officers were killed in a sniper attack during a protest rally. My heart was in pain for the lives lost, and I prayed that no bystanders were injured in the process. I was angry and saddened about the inequity and racism that still exists. So when I opened the book to discover that part of…