A young woman is compiling a book containing the stories of their day-to-day lives written by the maids in her town, who are raising the children and doing all the cleaning and cooking. Innocent enough . . . but it's 1962, the town: Jackson, Mississippi; she is white, they are black. Warm, funny, angry, an extraordinary novel which keeps you on tenterhooks as she and the maids forge true friendships while facing ostracism, racial prejudice and worse.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 58 Autumn 2010 ) |
