A Tell-All, maids, and prejudice women come together in the most unlikely way to create quite an interesting story. Kathryn Stockett's first novel, The Help, is all about secrets kept behind the closed doors in the lies of black maids in Jackson, Mississippi,
  The Help starts out in 1962, Jackson, Mississippi. It follows three narrators, Aibileen, Minny, and Skeeter. Around that day and time there was a lot of racial tension. Jackson was the most segregated city in America and all around it movements for equality were happening. Aibileen is working for a young women, Mrs. Leefolt, and her husband. Most of her time is spent cleaning or caring for their toddler, Mae Mobely. Mrs. Leefolt doesn't love her child the way Aibileen does. Minny is an excellent cook with  a loud mouth. After being fired from her old job, she finds work near Jackson with a mysterious boss. Minny is just hoping her boss doesn't find out why she was fired last time. Skeeter Phelan is fresh out of college and read to work. Yet, she doesn't have a husband which worries her mother. Constantine, Skeeter's old maid, would normally be the person she talks to about this, but Constantine has vanished. Skeeter gets a job as Mrs.Myra in the local news paper, which is a cleaning article. The only problem is that she knows nothing about cleaning. Skeeter decides to ask Elizabeth Leefolt's maid for help and Aibileen agrees. While trying to impress a publishing company in New York, she gets the idea to write a book about being a maid in Jackson. With the help of Aibileen and Minny, these three ladies come together in hope for better days to come.
I enjoyed this book because it was real, raw, and believable. I felt Aibileen's sadness, Minny's ferocity, and Skeeter's hope for the future. If the brilliant Kathryn Stockett wrote another book, I don't think I would read it. The reason for this wold be because The Help was just to great to be topped. While reading her new book I would constantly be comparing it to The Help. I would encourage others to read this book if I had the chance. My generation knows little about how segregation and prejudice felt. This book gives us a peep hole into past lives and what they had to go through.
Overall, this was one of, if not, the best book I have ever read. At points it made me cry, laugh, and gasp. Kathryn Stockett has out-done herself with the genius that is The Help. Aibileen, Minny, and Skeeter all represent different point-of-views from that time and creat a full experience for the reader. If I could only read one book again, it would be this one.