The Help

I'll start off by saying that if you can listen to this book as an audio book, then do so. The readers really made the book even more endearing for me. I feel as though it made it more "real" for me listening to it. It felt as though I knew these women and could just walk over and talk to them if I so chose. The book tugged at my heartstrings. I love a book that makes me feel... something, anything, it doesn't matter. This book did that. The Help is about black women who worked as maids for white women in the early 1960s. I felt compassion for the women of color who had to endure such lives of disregard and contempt. Women who had to walk on eggshells with their white employers and, sometimes, even their own husbands at home. I'm not sure if many men would love this book. The circle of women and their closeness definitely lends itself to a good female bonding book club option. I would definitely recommend this book.