The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Book group this month will be on Tuesday, September 28th at 7:30pm at Heather's house.  We'll be discussing The Help by Kathryn Stockett.  This should be a fun night, not only because of this fantastic book but this will also be the first night that ladies from the Papillion ward will be joining us!  We are now combining our book group which will mean new friends and more discussion!  At our September meeting we'll take a few minutes to get to know each other and spend some time talking about how we want to continue running book group (from how to choose books, how to rotate locations, etc.) so come with ideas of how you'd like book group to be improved!  As always, you don't need to have read the book to attend.  Everyone is always welcome.  And a HUGE welcome to the Papillion ladies!  We're excited to have you join us!


This is a rather popular book, so I believe every library would have at least one copy.  I think the Papillion library has 3 copies, but there might be a wait on the hold list.  You can also check out the links in the right side bar to find a cheap used copy online.


From GoodReads.com:

Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger.

Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.

Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.

Minny, Aibileen’s best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody’s business, but she can’t mind her tongue, so she’s lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.

Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.

In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women — mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends — view one another.

A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t.