Once a month, friends gather to play bridge and exchange news. While she speak or eat, good black look after children and do the housework. But one of the ladies wrinkles his nose how to accept to share toilets with these people who bring germs and diseases? This must change! A law to separate masters and servants is needed. One of them is yet revolted. She sends in a great house of New York edition a revolutionary project: giving voice to good. Is it achievable? These will they venture to speak to Blanche? Skeeter she will still be accepted in his own community? This novel sends us into a bewildering world, rigid and medieval ideas. And yet it is in America in the 60s! How to imagine that the good are forced to work like slaves and accept every humiliation without complaint? How to believe that if they talk, they put their lives and their families at risk? Through three perspectives, Kathryn Stockett shows faults that separate communities, but also everything that brings. Many anecdotes are constantly bouncing the story, the drama alternates with humor, the tone is alternately funny turn, moving, touching, shocking and novel and much richer than the movie that got away (I have liked). I loved this novel.
