Book 12: The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Travel back to 1963 in Jackson, Mississippi, to the heart of the Civil Rights Movement and the everyday folk who helped move us forward towards an integrated nation ....not the newspaper version, but the real lives, living and working conditions, of oppressed black and white Americans that was left following the Civil War and Reconstruction. Meet the change that was in the very air of the 1960's. Meet my early adolescence memories and the turmoil and psychological violence embedded in social fabric of America that eventually erupted into street violence. I loved this book! I loved the characters. I loved the brave actions that can take place in telling personal stories. I loved the change that can happen in simple acts of kindness. I loved the prayer and the surprise of answers to prayer. I loved the strong women in this book and I loved the exposure of weakness and failure in women who presume to be powererful but have nothing because they have no faith or morals - only selfish ambition. Read this book so you can appreciate how far we have traveled in the last 40 years!!!! Read this book for the sheer joy of seeing our history up close and personal!!!