The Help

Our book club recently read The Help by Kathryn Stockett. It is a very thought provoking, well written first novel.

Skeeter Pelhan is ahead of her time; she is over 6 feet tall, a college graduate and she wants to be a writer. A sympathetic publisher charges Skeeter with submitting something different, something that hasn't been done before. So she writes the stories of several black women who work as maids for white women, in Mississippi, during the 60's. I don't know about you but the words, "Mississippi during the 60's" always send a chill through me. The stories that unfold are sad, funny, outrageous and dangerous for those who tell them.

LeAnne