The Help

The Help by Kathryn Stockett


My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This book rocked my world. I almost completely neglected my family last night trying to finish it so I could find out what was going to happen to these incredible characters. It was such a beautiful, moving story made all the more so when I think about how true it all was less than 50 years ago.

Only someone born and raised in Mississippi would be willing to write this type of story and I understand the author's hesitance as a White woman to write in the voice of two Black women in the 1960's, but I think she did an incomparable job.

This book is definitely worth all of the buzz it has been receiving and I hope the movie gets made. America's history which was really not that long ago is something that needs to be written down and told over and over again so that we can look and be reminded how far we have come as a country and how much further we have to go.

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