As a Southern white girl raised by black women who worked for our family, this book struck a deep chord. Seeing it from the other side was sometimes funny, sometimes difficult, but always made me think. The characters are well drawn and engaging.

I grew up during the civil rights movement, and recall well some “interesting” discussions between family members when my elementary school was being integrated for the first time. In many ways, The Help was a walk down memory lane. I was fortunate (as were the women and men employed by my parents and grandparents) to have a loving and respectful relationship with them. I hope they felt the same way. Racism has always been, personally for me, a foreign concept. Seeing it described so clearly in this book, I now recognize it’s sadly familar sharp & bitter shadow.

I loved this book all the way through, and hated to see it end. Highly recommend. I hope she writes a sequel!
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