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 | The Help | Skeeter has just returned to her Mississippi home town with a degree and an ambition to be a writer. But it is 1962 and her mother wants her to just find a nice rich young man and settle down, while she struggles to write anything original or publishable - until she has the idea to capture the lives of the black maids who are still overworked, underpaid and often treated like slaves. Categories: historical, non-speculative |
| by Kathryn Stockett | ||
| Score: 8 | ||
| Published: 2009 | ||
| Read: August 4th 2026 |
Comments
John said
Intended to be an expose of Black lives, Stockett has nevertheless taken some stick for writing from the basis of white saviour syndrome. On the other hand, if you know little about those times, like me, it is also very enlightening.