The Help
by Kathryn Stockett
Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.
Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody's business, but she can't mind her tongue, so she's lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.
Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.
In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women - mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends - view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't.
**please comment on your thoughts about the book and the "lines" our lives....
I really enjoyed this book. It's written from three perspectives--which writing style I tend to enjoy.
ReplyDeleteNear the end, I found it hard to put down because I wanted to know how everything would end up.
I don't have much to say, except that sometimes I wonder how we could be fighting against Hitler in WW2 for what he was doing, and yet large parts of this country had segregation and worse happening in the South.
I'm glad the writer made good use of her talents. And it's important to use our talents and to voice our opinions in good ways, for good and true causes that build and uplift others.