The Help

I am a huge fan of the south--the accents, the food, and most of all my family who grew up and still live in the south.  While The Help made me feel like I was home, it also presents a  unique perspective on life in the '60s.  Readers are introduced to Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan who has recently graduated from Ole Miss and returns to her home in Jackson, Mississippi in the summer of 1962.  As the tensions of the civil rights movement begin to rise, Skeeter interviews and records the stories of several black women who are entrusted with raising the children and housekeeping for many of the community's white families.  This fictional account of the times surfaces the history and heart of these women during a revolutionary time in our country.