We are in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, at the time of segregation ... whites and blacks live apart, but dependent on each other, because blacks working for whites, while being fiercely kept away.
Good black bear and raise children of white women, are often much closer to them than their own mother.
Aibileen is such a good, working for 40 years in white families, doing all the chores while raising the baby as and when they are born.
Minnie is her best friends, but his "big mouth" that it must change employers frequently.
Skeeter is one of those girls, raised by her good Constantine, who disappeared without leaving a forwarding address when she was in college, and she has no news.
With all due caution in this state where the mere fact of being between whites and blacks outside of a kitchen can take you to jail and even worse, these three women will join forces for a project that seems crazy: writing a book of testimonies on the lives of good in white families, but also for Skeeter, know what became of Constantine, which everyone around her tries to boycott the name ...
When I arrived at the end of this book, I felt an orphan in this country to the warm and moist, these characters so engaging, these stories all heavy pain and sorrow, but also immense joys.
I laughed, almost cried, smiled, shook his fists, wanted to hit some of the characters preserved in their fear and stupidity, to the point of acting against their own interests.
For a first novel, he is successful, and I hope it will be read by a majority, because it makes you feel different after ...
When is the next novel by this wonderful author?
Odile
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