The Help

What a great book this is, read it if you can. I found mine in the library on the Fast Read shelf. It took me 2 days to read it instead of a week , it is that good.
The story revolves around three women in Jackson Mississippi during the time of civil rights in the 60s. One is an African American called Aibeleen, another a white woman nicknamed Skeeter and the third is an African American named Minnie. They each tell their stories and those of their friends and relatives in a turbulent time in American history. The African American women are maids in the homes of white women, subjected to all the rules of a time when blacks and whites did not cross invisible lines except for the black women who were needed to serve the white women. That is the story of the two black women. The story of the white woman is one where she feels the injustices of the system and decides to approach Aibileen to tell her story so that Skeeter can write a book about the life of maids in Mississippi. Aibeleen enlists her friend Minnie to join them. Minnie has a tough life as she is far too outspoken and so loses job after job. She has five kids and an abusive husband.
In this tale of black and white the lives of all three shift and change, it is a tale of losses and gains and fears and triumphs as told by the women who have to meet clanestinely to avoid the horrible risks they would endure if the book is discovered by anyone.
I am deliberately not telling you the actual events of the story but the outline. I kmow you will find it very entertaining.
Be restful and sleep well.