Book’s Review - The Help

By Kathryn Stockett
ISBN: 9780425232200

Description:
The wildly popular New York Times bestseller and reading group favorite.
Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who's always taken orders quietly, but lately she's unable to hold her bitterness back. Her friend Minny has never held her tongue but now must somehow keep secrets about her employer that leave her speechless. White socialite Skeeter just graduated college. She's full of ambition, but without a husband, she's considered a failure. Together, these seemingly different women join together to write a tell-all book about work as a black maid in the South, that could forever alter their destinies and the life of a small town...




Comments:
The Help is a simply amazing debut novel. It is one of my favorite books.
This book is about Eugenia, a young white woman from Mississippi who was raised by a black woman who worked for the family. She returns from college, looking forward to seeing Constantine, only to find out she left the family's employment a couple of weeks earlier. Nobody will tell her where she has gone or why. When she gets a job as an advice columnist for the local newspaper, answering questions about household maintenance, she turns to Aibilene, the domestic servant of her childhood friend, since no white woman in her Junior League knows anything about the nuts & bolts of running the home. Aibilene also knows what happened with Constantine, but because of the boundaries between blacks and whites, hesitates to share the story with Eugenia.

She begins interviewing and writing the stories of Aibilene and other domestic workers against the backdrop of Martin Luther King, KKK lynchings, and sit-ins at lunch counters. While reading, you can hear the lilt of the deep south and smell the chicken frying. This book is highly recommended.

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