Intriguing

The Help
By Kathryn Stockett
Putnam
Retail price $24.99
Amazon Price: $9.50


Book Description:

Be prepared to meet three unforgettable women:

Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.

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...

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READING ROOM REVIEW

What a wonderful book about the civil rights in the South. I hadn't
realized how poorly African-American's were treated as recently as
the 1960s. It was well written; I just couldn't put it down. The
author demonstrated compassion, humor, love, and dedication for
a cause she believed in. The book was the story of women who wanted
and deserved a better life.

Even though I loved the book, I did not like the ending. I truly
wished it had ended differently.

~Reviewed by Alice B.