I forgot one little thing

I realized at 3:00 a.m., a very convenient time, especially when you're lying in bed in the sweltering heat trying very hard to fall asleep, that I should have included a blurb about what The Help is about. So here is my two-cents worth (liberally aided by the book jacket): The Help is narrated by three women, Skeeter, Minny, and Aibileen who live in Jackson, Mississippi in 1962. Skeeter has just graduated from Ole Miss and returns home to a marriage-minded mama and the mystery that her beloved maid, Constantine, has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.

Aibileen is a black maid raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her with the death of her only son, and she can no longer ignore the nagging feeling that things should change. And that she may have the power to make those changes.

Minny is Aibileen's best friend and the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook better than anyone, but she can't keep a civil tongue in her head which is why she is often fired. She's looking for a new position when she discovers the newest addition to town, a woman from the wrong side of the tracks with many secrets.

(Now I'm going to directly quote the book jacket.) "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 their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed."

So go out and buy/borrow this book already. It's worth your time.

Comments

[Amy O]

Its called prioritizing. Im just sayin. ~Amy

[Janet]

I can only say "Amen, Sister" to your sentiments about this book. Reading it is a far, far better thing than doing the laundry.