The Help is the best book I've read in years. It's up there with Memoirs of a Geisha - capturing moments of history in the voices of unforgettable characters. It takes place in Mississippi the early 1960s, when slavery is illegal but Jim Crow is in full swing. It's sad, it's funny. I read it quickly, and I think it's a treasure.
The story is told from three women's points of view. There is Minny, an older black woman who has served as a house maid/nanny for decades. She does her job dutifully and has, up to this point in her life, played by the rules. There is Abilieen, a younger house maid/nanny who has gotten in trouble for mouthing off all her life. Finally, there is Skeeter, a recent college grad who was bred to be a Southern Belle but instead finds herself lost the bigotry of her town and friends. It's an amazing, and dangerous, relationship that the women form and what they create ruffles the entire town.
Read it!
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