For Book Beginnings:
Mae Mobley was born on an early Sunday morning in August, 1960. A church baby we like to call it. Taking care a white babies, that's what I do, along with all the cooking and cleaning. I done raised seventeen kids in my lifetime. I know how to get them babies to sleep, stop crying, and go in the toilet bowl before they mamas even get out a bed in the morning.
- p. 1
For Friday 56:
"Mama," I say, just wanting to end this conversation, "would it really be so terrible if I never met a husband?"
- p. 56
Synopsis of The Help by Kathryn Stockett: Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver... There's Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her own son's tragic death; Minny, whose cooking is nearly as sassy as her tongue; and white Miss Skeeter, home from College, who wants to know why her beloved maid has disappeared. Skeeter, Aibileen and Minny. No one would believe they'd be friends; fewer still would tolerate it. But as each woman finds the courage to cross boundaries, they come to depend and rely upon one another. Each is in a search of a truth. And together they have an extraordinary story to tell...
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I read the book. I watched the movie. Loved. Here's my review from 2012. I think I went overboard. I think I was in one of those contemplative moods when I was writing it. Anyway, it's an amazing read - and watch - so go do one!
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