I just finished a very wonderful first novel, "
The Help," by
Kathryn Stockett. The novel takes place in Jackson, Mississippi.
It's both a beautiful and painful novel, one that deals with the Black maids who worked for the Whites during the era of the early 1960s.
I grew up in the South and the novel rings true on so many levels. It's compassionate and beautifully written, one that truly comes from the heart, as the author further indicates in her Afterward.
I highly recommend this novel, not only to those individuals here who may be familiar with the term
Southern Culture, but for anyone who has no idea what being Southern means.
The expiated guilt must come from me and all Southerners, but even Yankees are encouraged to read it for insight into something they may know nothing about .
Don