bookhoarding 's review for:

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

4.0

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Told through the eyes of three women in a segregated Mississippi of the 1960s, the story captures the daily trials and heartbreak in the relationship between white women and their help. The unlikely alliance between two maids and a daughter of one of the well-off families shows how racial tensions effected everyone. Children were raised by maids they would later issue orders to, and somehow this was seen as the natural progression. The ladies gradually collect enough stories to publish a book told from the perspective of the women who cleaned, cooked and basically ran the households they would never live in.

For those of us who didn't live during this era, this book gives a perspective on the daily horrors we can not imagine. It is a rare book indeed that makes you grateful for how far we have come, and yet meditate on the advances we have yet to make.