Her friend Minny has never held her tongue but now must somehow keep secrets about her employer that leave her speechless. Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, whos always taken orders quietly, but lately shes unable to hold her bitterness back. Book Synopsis The #1 New York Times bestselling novel and basis for the Academy Award-winning film-a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we dont-nominated as one of Americas best-loved novels by PBSs The Great American Read. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women-black and white, mothers and daughters-view one another. It is so true, correct and real it could have been my town or any town in the south in 1963.About the Book In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. I can only say that I am no longer that product. How did we treat her and others that was considered "normal" then? Were we guilty of the prejudice and segregation-ism that is portrayed in this book? I have to say probably because we were a product of our time. She cleaned our house, ate at our table, cooked our dinner that night, and we visited her family at the holidays and took them a turkey at thanksgiving and wrapped presents at Christmas.But I wonder now what else we did that I was not aware of.
Yes, we had a housekeeper that came once a week because my mother had to work full time. I saw what was going on, I heard it, but I never really understood it, and my parents were more like Skeeter, people were just people. What this book did for me is fill in the gaps that I never knew. I remember the outside door at the theater that said colored and led to the balcony and our delight when they finally opened it up to everyone and us teenagers could sneak up there.I was not one of the kids that had a full time maid or nanny that raised them, but I had friends that did. I remember the Sears where my mother worked having a Colored and White Bathroom and a Colored and White water fountain. I am from the south, and I was 10 years old in 1963.
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