The Help - by Kathryn Stockett
On the back cover:
Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step…
Twenty-two year old Skeeter had just returned home from 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 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 times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.
My take so far:
I just started reading this today at lunch, so nothing really to report, but this book comes highly recommended (also a book club choice), and I know after reading the first chapter this one is going to be hard to put down. Not very many books I can say that about after only 1 chapter.
Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step…
Twenty-two year old Skeeter had just returned home from 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 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 times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.
My take so far:
I just started reading this today at lunch, so nothing really to report, but this book comes highly recommended (also a book club choice), and I know after reading the first chapter this one is going to be hard to put down. Not very many books I can say that about after only 1 chapter.
1 comment:
i keep passing that one at the book store and debate with myself whether or not i should buy it - if you're hooked after the first chapter, i may just have to get it!!
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