The Help
2009 • 534 pages

Ratings641

Average rating4.2

15

Entertaining, but I never got over a rich white woman trying to speak for black maids in the 60s. There were moments when I felt she captured the terror African Americans must have felt during the era, but for the most part it just felt like a nostalgic look back on her childhood. The detailed descriptions of all the domestic tasks left me wishing I had a full time maid, but that was about the only lasting impression.