Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Next Book Club Choice- The Help

The Help is the next book for our book club.  I devoured 400+ page book in two days.  I lost track of all time reading this book.  So, you could say I would recommend it.  It's the story of three women in Mississippi in 1962.  One of these women is the newly graduated privileged daughter of cotton plantation owners and the other two women are "the help".  These women work for the friends of the privileged young woman.  The women's lives intertwine while the civil rights movement is slowly making inroads in Mississippi.  Two black women and one young white girl bucking the system as it is and coming into their own as freer women.  Compelling stuff.  I found myself at times really angry at what was going on during this time period in the South and also, it left me with the question, "What would I have done had I been alive in the South in the 60s?" 


No comments: