"The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

[sherban]

I read The Help while I was in St Thomas last week and I LOVED IT...couldn't put it down. I was sucked in from the first few pages until the end.

Highly Reccomended!

This is a book anout the realities, issues, relationships between blacks and whites in 1960's Mississippi. It is revealing, painful, touching, and hopeful...wow it really moved me and held me tight until I was done.

This is a subject I find so very interesting because segregation and prejudice was so common in my parent's generation but not all all common or accepted in mine....sometimes I wonder how can we change that much...how could we have been that far off that recently...how did things get that way...


Great read!

[sherban]

sorry- meant to post this in "What are you reading"....my bad...

[byado18]

I agree.. one of the best I've read in a long time..... so cared about all the characters and still want to know more about them...hope there is a follow up.

[djmom]

I haven't read the book, but I remember my mother in law's funeral (South Carolina) After the service we went back to her house. Her old housekeeper came, a lovely woman. She refused to come into the house and insisted she would sit on the porch. Her husband came also and same thing. I guess that was the way it used to be-put in their "place".

She just about died when my husband and I pulled her aside and gave her my mother-in-laws favorite ring, which was quite a special ring.

[Terry]

Sherban,
Great read! I grew up, not in the south, but near Detroit. If you think about our generation and all that took place, it is pretty amazing. Our parents generation had the money, but our generation had the technology, forward thinking, and more.

What will our kids generation bring to society?

[sherban]

I could not put that book down...and I started chuckling out loud on page one...loved it.

I remember some comments my grandparents made..racial comments and it seems like science fiction to me.

My son and I watched MLK's speech on the computer today and his favorite line was the one where MLK says he dreams of one day when his 4 children will not be judged by the color of their skin....well I think we are almost there. And I am proud of the progress we have made...history of this subject is heavy...scary even...true.

[mindehankins]

I agree...it's wonderful! I had a bit of a problem at first, understanding the dialect. My grandparents lived in Birmingham, Alabama, during the civil rights movement, and I heard lots of stories.
I, too, find it unbelievable that such horrific events happened during my lifetime. Just unbelievable!

[stjohnjulie]

Thanks for the recommendation! I am going to have to read this one. Has anyone read "Slavery by Another Name"? It's another one on my to read list.