So, if you saw my post on Facebook, I absolutely loved this book. Jeremy said he hadn't seen me so engrossed in a book in so long. I'm just sad that I hadn't read it earlier.
I was wary of the book when one of the blurbs on it said that it was one of the most important and must reads since To Kill a Mockingbird. Please. That's a classic and a fantastic one at that. But I was wrong. I was instantly sucked into this story.
It's a three personal narrative that rotates among two black maids and a recent white female college grad. It's set in Jackson, Mississippi, in the early 1960s. I'm sure you can picture the issues that arise, especially since the young woman decides that there is something wrong with Southern society in this time period.
It was so good and so compelling that I've been telling everyone to check it out.
What an amazing book! It reminded me a lot of The Secret Life of Bees, which is one of my personal favorites.
ReplyDeleteNow, though, I need to step away from the YA dystopian literature....I am obsessed....
Yes! I loved that book, too. I was really disappointed with The Mermaid's Chair.
ReplyDeleteI'm swearing off YA Lit for a bit. I need a break. Today, I plunged through the ever hard-hitting James Patterson. I needed some no thinking for a bit.