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The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Dec. 21st, 2010 11:06 amThis weekend I finished The Help by Kathryn Stockett. It was a book I discovered through the ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
50bookchallenge community and it's one I'm so glad that I read.
The book takes place in the early 1960s and tells the story of a white woman (Eugenia Phelan, aka Skeeter) and two black women (Aibileen and Minny) who are maids for the rich white families of Jackson, MS. Skeeter, a budding writer, takes an interest in the maids' stories about their work for these white families and begins, in secret, to get together with not just Aibileen and Minny, but other maids as well to tell their stories. It is a really really fantastic read. I was sucked into it from the very first page and couldn't get the story out of my mind.
I highly recommend it to everyone!
( Complete 100 list )
I'm currently reading Christopher Moore's The Stupidest Angel which is not on this list.
50bookchallenge community and it's one I'm so glad that I read.The book takes place in the early 1960s and tells the story of a white woman (Eugenia Phelan, aka Skeeter) and two black women (Aibileen and Minny) who are maids for the rich white families of Jackson, MS. Skeeter, a budding writer, takes an interest in the maids' stories about their work for these white families and begins, in secret, to get together with not just Aibileen and Minny, but other maids as well to tell their stories. It is a really really fantastic read. I was sucked into it from the very first page and couldn't get the story out of my mind.
I highly recommend it to everyone!
( Complete 100 list )
I'm currently reading Christopher Moore's The Stupidest Angel which is not on this list.
