We wrapped up Sarah's Key with some very invigorating discussion. Always interesting to discuss the holocaust.
Onward to our next read. This one is The Help by Kathryn Stockett which many people have read. I could not get a kit for it, but a few people own the book and have offered to lend it. Let me know if you need one and I will help you find one.
The fun and frivolity will take place at my house on Wednesday September 8th at 7:00 pm.
The Help
Be prepared to meet three unforgettable women:
Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.
Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.
Minny, Aibileen’s best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody’s business, but she can’t mind her tongue, so she’s lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.
The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't.
Hope to see you there,
Robin