Join us for discussion of Kathryn Stockett's best selling 2009 novel The Help in celebration of Black History month. Space is limited to 15 people. Books will be available one month ahead of event.
Kathryn Stockette's award winning novel takes place in Jackson, Mississippi in 1963 and tells the story of a young white aspiring journalist, Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan, and her relationship with two black maids, Aibileen Clark and Minny Jackson. In her attempt to become a legitimate journalist, Skeeter writes a tell-all book about work as a black maid in the South, exposing the racism black maids face as they work for white families. Stockett's debut bestselling novel was nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.