Book Review #10

Recommended by Aunt Jennifer and then some friends. This was a very good book.

From Barnes and Noble:

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...

My Review:

I felt this was a very well written book and I could imagine that it was very similar to how things really were in the 60's. When I read books like this it is so hard to imagine how poorly people are treated just because of the color of their skin. What is worse though is there are still places where people are treated poorly. It is nice that we have come such a long way as a country but I think we still have a ways to go. Overall, this book was very good and I definitely recommend it to all of you!