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What a brilliant story that Stockett has devised with this book! Set in the early 1960s, the novel takes the perspective of certain black maids in Jackson, Mississippi. How do they fare serving the white upper-class families at a time when race relations were still fragile. When one of these upper crust members seeks to begin a life as a journalist, she wants the stories that tell the other side of race relations.
— Jun 29, 2017 09:25PM
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With a story that pauses for nothing, the reader is pulled deeper into the struggles of the maids in Jefferson and their attempts not to topple the apple cart. However, they remain loyal to the ideals that Eugenia professes in her tell-all book. While she writes, Eugenia remained a pariah amongst her friends for not simply swallowing the colour divisions within the state. The year is 1964 and the times are changing.
— Jul 02, 2017 07:16PM
