This is a very powerful and moving book. Told from three different woman's point of views you find out what it is like to be a black woman living in Mississippi in the early 60's before the start of the Civil Right's movement.
Miss Skeeter guides you through white society in Mississippi and what it means to be up standing and proper. Skeeter fresh out of school, she graduated from Ole Miss with a degree in writing with aspirations of being a journalist is finding it hard to settle to any thing when she gets home from school. But because she is a woman and has no experience doors are being slammed in her face.
She is the Editor of the woman's league news letter, and has taken to writing the cleaning column for the local news paper but doesn't know how to clean. She grew up on a Cotton plantation and had every thing done for her by her beloved Maid Constantine.
She refuses to put a letter in the league news letter about the diseases you can get from your black maids, and how it is beneficial to build them there own bathrooms out side in the garage. When she gives in and does it, she asks people to donate old toilets her Miss Hilly's house and it is the start of her down ward spiral with her friend's and life as she knows it. Mississippi would be very lonely for her if it weren't for her unlikely friendship with Abilene.
her world is about to be turned upside down, with Constantine gone and her life being held together by a string she turns to her friend Elizabeth's Maid Abilene to help her write her articles. She soon gets an idea to write a book about what it is like to be a Black Maid working for a white family in Jackson Mississippi. All the woman are scared to get involved with a project like this but after certain events happen 11 other woman step forward to tell Skeeter their stories.
She opens her book with her beloved Constantine, and closes it with Abilene's best friend Minnie's story which is one of the sadder stories in the book.
Follow These three women through a year living in 1960's Jackson Mississippi, the Civil Right's movement is being fueled with hatred and violence and these brave woman step forward and play their part in making a change. The book is beautifully powerful and moving, and if you love to read this one is a must. It will make you laugh and it will make you cry, but as you close the book it will leave a big smile on your face and happiness in your heart.
My review does not do this book justice, but I was extremely moved my this book. Don't take my word for it pick up the book and read it!
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