We're a part of newly formed neighborhood book group. The last book we read was THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. It's a novel set in Jackson Mississippi during the early sixties. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She persuades a number of African American women who work as domestic help in white homes to tell their stories. It is very well written and helps one glimpse some of the turmoil of the civil rights movement from a new perspective.
Our discussion at the book group was enriched by the multicultural backgrounds of the group. Perhaps the key to the book is this, "Wasn't that the point of the book? (The book is the one Skeeter writes using the maid's stories.) For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought."
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