Salon discussion – Kathryn Stockett The Help
Salon book discussion
The Help, by Kathryn Stockett
Spaces are limited so please contact jean@nysalon.org if you wish to attend. Saturday, June 19 at 3pm
From Publishers Weekly, “This novel is set during the nascent civil rights movement in Jackson, Mississippi, where black women were trusted to raise white children but not to polish the household silver. Eugenia Skeeter Phelan is just home from college in 1962, and, anxious to become a writer, is advised to hone her chops by writing about what disturbs her. The budding social activist begins to collect the stories of the black women on whom the country club sets relies and mistrusts enlisting the help of Aibileen, a maid who’s raised 17 children, and Aibileen’s best friend Minny, who’s found herself unemployed more than a few times after mouthing off to her white employers.”
