The Help
Kathryn Stockett, 2009
Three women in 1960s Mississippi quietly collect the stories white families never expected to be told.
Kathryn Stockett
Stockett grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, where her family employed a Black maid; she has said the novel began as a way to imagine that woman's inner life.
Feels like friendship, power and hope.
The childhood warnings you still half believe, and the ones you ignore.
Two days later, I sit in my parent’s kitchen, waiting for dusk to fall. Igive in and light another cigarette even though last night the surgeongeneral came on the television set and shook his finger at everybody,trying to convince us that smoking will kill us. But Mother once toldme tongue kissing would turn me blind and I’m starting to think it’sall just a big plot between the surgeon general and Mother to make sureno one ever has any fun. Books by Kathryn Stockett
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