"The Help"
I wanted to tell you about the delicious novel that I just finished last night, one of those that kept me up reading late into the night. The title is "The Help," and it was on the Los Angeles Times best seller list for over a year. Interestingly,the novel is Kthryn Stockett's debut. It took her five years to complete the book, which was rejected by at least 45 literary agents. Just goes to show, you should never give up.
It takes place in Jackson, Mississippi in the early 60's, just as the U.S. is getting into the midst of the civil rights movement. It's told in rotating chapters through the eyes of a young white woman just graduated from Ole Miss and two Black women who work as maids in the houses of her friends. I thought that it would make an interesting movie, and then I saw in Wikipedia that it was scheduled to start filming in July. So, you'll get a chance to see it in that form, if you won't read the novel. It's not as dense as the "Girl With the Dragon Tatoo," so maybe it would be worth the effort. One of the things mentioned is that the Black women aren't allowed to withdraw books from the white folks' public library, only from the library for the colored.
It takes place in Jackson, Mississippi in the early 60's, just as the U.S. is getting into the midst of the civil rights movement. It's told in rotating chapters through the eyes of a young white woman just graduated from Ole Miss and two Black women who work as maids in the houses of her friends. I thought that it would make an interesting movie, and then I saw in Wikipedia that it was scheduled to start filming in July. So, you'll get a chance to see it in that form, if you won't read the novel. It's not as dense as the "Girl With the Dragon Tatoo," so maybe it would be worth the effort. One of the things mentioned is that the Black women aren't allowed to withdraw books from the white folks' public library, only from the library for the colored.
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