Summary:
The scene for this book is set in Mississippi 1962 where a young university graduate named Skeeter returns home to live with her parents. Before long, she lands a job writing housekeeping articles for the local newspaper. Not knowing much about housekeeping, Skeeter asks Aibileen, her friend Elizabeth’s black maid, for advice to write in the weekly column. The two meet often and become friends.
During this time, Skeeter’s other friend Hilly wants to start an initiative to ban black maids from using the same household bathrooms as white people. Skeeter thinks the initiative is unfair and discriminatory. With the help of Aibileen, Skeeter secretly begins collecting the stories of the local black maids for a book she is trying to pitch to an editor in New York City.
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I’ve been waiting for this in paperback but am interested because my father has a forthcoming oral history set in Mississippi in the same era.
Thank you for this exciting giveaway, the book review is super.
I would like to win.
Thanks for the chance to win this book – it’s been on my wishlist for far too long!
What a fabulous giveaway! Thanks for sharing The Help.
Thank you so much for offering this. It has got such rave reviews that
one must read it
I follow and subscribe through RSS feed. This looks like a great read!
I have seen this book in the store but haven’t read it yet. Please include me.
Thanks.
Hi…I’d like to be entered in your giveaway for The Help. I’m a new Google follower and enjoying your blog very much. Great review!
SandyG
Muzzley56[at]aol[dot]com
I saw that you reviewed Kathryn Stockett’s: The Help on your blog and it would be
great honor if you would read and review my novel SUGAR, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year.
New York Times Bestselling author Adriana Trigiani gave me a marvelous blurb after reading This Bitter Earth, which is the sequel to SUGAR:
“Bernice L. McFadden is a master storyteller.
Blogger/Book Reviewer Gerber Daisy Mom was quoted as saying this about Sugar: “In my quest to find the alternative to The Help I’m trying to immerse myself in African-American authors, whose points of view lend more authenticity and credibility to the stories of African-American characters. I hit gold with Bernice L. McFadden’s,Sugar.”
You can read her entire review here: http://gerberadaisydiaries.blogspot.com/2010/01/book-review-sugar.html
I working to place SUGAR into as many hands, hearts and minds as possible and I hope you can help me do this.
Please let me know If I may send you a copy of SUGAR. If so, please forward your address and blog URL.
Peace & Light,
Bernice
I have heard and read so many wonderful things about this novel. I’d love to read it myself. Thanks for offering it.
How nice! I just finished my contest and my giveaway and am entering yours. All requests done and love to win!
I would love to win a copy of The Help.. This couldn’t come at a more perfect time as next month by face to face book club wants to discuss this one.
Please enter me.
I just became a fan on facebook and a google follower!
Thanks!
Faith
(Faith_Bookluvr@yahoo.com)