Hi all, Shauna here, have you started reading “The Help” by Kathryn Stockett yet? I have and it is really good. I am enjoying the way the author is building the characters, I feel like I really know the ladies in the book. Some I like and some I don’t, but that is life. If you missed the last Wordy Wednesday post I gave the synopsis of the book, this week I thought I would pass on a couple of reviews…just to peak your interest.

From the Booklist – Jackson, Mississippi, in the early 1960s is a city of tradition. Silver is used at bridge-club luncheons, pieces polished to perfection by black maids who “yes, ma’am,” and “no, ma’am,” to the young white ladies who order the days. This is the world Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan enters when she graduates from Ole Miss and returns to the family plantation, but it is a world that, to her, seems ripe for change. As she observes her friend Elizabeth rudely interact with Aibileen, the gentle black woman who is practically raising Elizabeth’s two-year-old daughter, Mae Mobley, Skeeter latches onto the idea of writing the story of such fraught domestic relations from the help’s point of view. With the reluctant assistance of Aibileen’s feisty friend, Minny, Skeeter manages to interview a dozen of the city’s maids, and the book, when it is finally published, rocks Jackson’s world in unimaginable ways. With pitch-perfect tone and an unerring facility for character and setting, Stockett’s richly accomplished debut novel inventively explores the unspoken ways in which the nascent civil rights and feminist movements threatened the southern status quo. Look for the forthcoming movie to generate keen interest in Stockett’s luminous portrait of friendship, loyalty, courage, and redemption. — Carol Haggas

“A magical novel. Heartbreaking and oh so true, the voices of these characters, their lives and struggles will stay with you long after you reluctantly come to the end.”
–Robert Hicks, New York Times

“A wonderful book. A compelling and comically poignant tale about three women, and a time and a place that is in many ways very much still with us.”
–Beth Henley, Pulitzer Prize– winning playwright of Crimes of the Heart

“This heartbreaking story is a stunning debut from a gifted talent.”
— Atlanta Journal

Here are the details of the next book club meeting…hope to see you there.

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