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A review by thewallflower00
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
5.0
This is an excellent book. It was on everybody's "Best of" lists for 2009, but I never considered reading it because it wasn't in my genre. And to be honest, it sounded a little Gone With the Wind for me. But my mom had it and liked it, so I borrowed it.
What this book is is females with no junky romance (well, a little), no weak women, and lots of Bechdel test successes. This is a book about black housemaids in the 1950's in the south and their white women employers. The novel takes it from multiple perspectives, and there are good and bad guys, and not everyone wins. There are so many different relationships, but the funny thing is that, despite a clear line between boss and employer, there's never a clear line between who needs who. That's a terribly interesting paradigm, one that's rarely explored, and it's great to read a story about it.
What this book is is females with no junky romance (well, a little), no weak women, and lots of Bechdel test successes. This is a book about black housemaids in the 1950's in the south and their white women employers. The novel takes it from multiple perspectives, and there are good and bad guys, and not everyone wins. There are so many different relationships, but the funny thing is that, despite a clear line between boss and employer, there's never a clear line between who needs who. That's a terribly interesting paradigm, one that's rarely explored, and it's great to read a story about it.