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Book Review of The Help

The Help
The Help
Author: Kathryn Stockett
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Hardcover
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I just finished this book and I'm crying buckets. Having grown up in the 60s with a black maid this book hit so close to home for me that it was scary. It inspired me to write a letter to Dorothy, our former maid telling her how much she touched my life and how much she is loved to this day. The letter was long overdue.
Thank you to Kathryn Stockett for what is the most wonderful book I've ever read. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll feel as if you know the characters as if you lived in Jackson, Mississippi during the 1960's.
I can't wait to read more from Kathryn Stockett. I'd say this is easily the best book of the year, if not the decade!