The Help

3.66 Stars

"This is the best pie I ever had."  
"We are just two people.  Not that much separates us.  Not nearly as much as I thought."

"The Help" are good enough to raise the white woman's children that they work for, yet can't sit down at the dinner table with the family they work for.  And, God forbid they think about using the restroom in the home that they clean and cook for.  The Help takes place in the 1960s and is written from the viewpoints of several maids in the south and a woman (Skeeter).  A story of love, justice, injustice, and the lives of a variety of women in the south as the Civil Rights Movement is in its boom.


Everyone in the Group loved this book--although Elizabeth really would have preferred to not lug the hard copy around the country.  A small price to pay for a great read.