THE HELP BY KATHRYN STOCKETT taker the reader back to the sixties in Mississippi. A time where segregation was the norm and Martin Luther King's famous march in Selma AL is about to happen. New college graduate Euphina Phelan who is white has questions. Questions like where is Constantine the black maid of the Phelan house? No one will give her the answer so she sets out on her own to find out one way or another. With the help of two black maids Minnie and Aibileen she gets her answers and more.
Euphina is writing a book, a book about what it is like to be black in Mississippi & what the maids and all blacks deal with. Everything from listening to white people talk about black diseases to having to use a bathroom for blacks only to having to go to black doctors at black hospitals, black libraries,black grocery stores and more. The covers of discrimination are being tossed back and the picture is NOT pretty, and its a white woman who's doing it!
I loved this book! The characters are right out of the pages of the early sixties. So real you can reach out and touch them!
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