"The Help" movie

Silpat
Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:58:47 +0000

Somehow I missed all the earlier hoopla about this book and haven’t read it, but now I will. Count me as another who grew up spending more time with my family’s black housekeepers than with my mother in my early years.

I was too young to know or understand much of what was going on in the deep South in the early '60s, but I knew that bad men tried to hurt my father because he did things like helping a Catholic priest who worked with young black men; they telephoned death threats against him even after we moved to another state. My father was not from the South and he never met a black person until he was in the Army Air Corps in WW II, but he treated every one with respect and judged only by an individual’s character.

Anyway, I’m curious about the book but uncertain of how I’ll like it after reading some of the author’s interview remarks. It sounds like a book to borrow from the library rather than one to buy.