522 pages.
I became interested in reading this book after going to the movies and seeing a preview of this novel. From the preview I could tell it would be a story that I would enjoy reading very much. I also recently joined a book club and this is the reading selection for the month of September.
The story in set in Jackson, Mississippi in 1962. (In 1962, I was only one year old.) It is a story about Abileen, a black maid and her friends and the work that they do during the time when the civil rights movement was just starting. A young socialite just home from college with the ambition to be a writer sets out to write a book in secret about what it is like for a black maid to work in the white homes of the South. Some stories told are heartbreaking and others quite humorous. The women who participate in the book writing take great risks in this endeavor with the hope that the world will be a better place from the stories that are told.
This is also Kathryn Stockett’s first novel.
I would highly recommend putting this novel on your summer reading list.
Reflections 