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Kathryn Stockett

I’ve been severely delinquent on posting updates about what I’m reading and watching these days.  I probably have a backlog of about six or seven books that I’ve read and haven’t written about, and I doubt I’ll actually end up posting about all of them.  I did want to post about this book, though, because it’s one of the better books I’ve read over the past year.  I listened to this book and the narration was fantastic.  The book takes place in segregated Mississippi in the early 60’s and is told from three different points of view.  “The help” refers to the black women that were employed by white families to run a household, which included everything from polishing the silver to raising the children. Stockett tells the story of a white woman who begins to document the lives of the black women who are “the help” and the bittersweet lives they lead.