The author speaks with talent relations between the wealthy and their servants (The Help) in Jackson, Mississippi in the early 1960. It recounts the courage, dignity and even nobility of mind and heart which humans some evening their "color" are able, even in the face of any rules which govern society in a small town in the southern United States at the time.
What particularly struck me is the love between many of these domestic black women and white children they stood in the place of their mother (whose life passit in shopping, bridge games, charity events to raise funds to feed "the poor starving children of Africa" (what irony!).
If you can read it in English, it's better because the narrative is sometimes domestic ("maids") black themselves, a transcript of the way they speak ...
I live in the US for 40 years and France, even as a "northerner, I knew well that time. I am proud to have walked with Martin Luther King against segregation" de facto "schools in Boston.
Enjoy reading. You will not be the / the same after reading this book.
