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![]() ![]() You is Kind, You is Smart, You is important........ Beautifully written and incredibly moving with laugh out loud moments. Just the book for the times that are in it. This was chosen for a buddy challenge read, Pick a book that was published 10 years ago and one that we have both loved and would enjoy reading and discussing over zoom. Having read this many years ago I jumped at at the chance to read it again with my friend. Set in Jackson, Mississippi, 1962 where black maids raise while children but aren’t trusted not to steal the silver. I found myself totally consumed with this book for the past two days that it took me to read it, I I went through a range of emotions, from tearing up, to laughing out loud to being angry and frustrated for the characters. I loved the character development as each and every character felt real and I could picture them in my head from the very first chapter. The plot is memorable and well balanced, giving the reader a little history lesson along the way but keeping the story entertaining and suspenseful right to the end. I did see the movie version and normally I pick fault when comparing the book and the movie, but not so here the movie really does stay true to the book and now I will just have to watch that all over again too. We are having our zoom book discussion on this one shortly and I am sure we will be raising a toast to Skeeter, Abilene and Minny of course little Mae Mobley.
This is fun stuff, well-written and often applause-worthy. My only problem with The Help is that, in the end, it’s not really about the help. I finished The Help in one sitting and enjoyed it very, very much. It’s wise, literate, and ultimately deeply moving, a careful, heartbreaking novel of race and family that digs a lot deeper than most novels on such subjects do. As black-white race relations go, this could be one of the most important pieces of fiction since To Kill a Mockingbird... If you read only one book this summer, let this be it. “Mississippi is like my mother,” [Stockett] writes in an afterword to “The Help.” And you will see, after your wrestling match with this problematic but ultimately winning novel, that when it comes to the love-hate familial bond between Ms. Stockett and her subject matter, she’s telling the truth. Her pitch-perfect depiction of a country's gradual path toward integration will pull readers into a compelling story that doubles as a portrait of a country struggling with racial issues. Has the adaptationIs abridged inHas as a reference guide/companionHas as a commentary on the textHas as a student's study guideAwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another. No library descriptions found. |
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