This is a story about three women in Mississippi in the 1960's; two African-American maids and a young, white college graduate who has just moved back home. It follows their lives as they intertwine in a plot that has its share of twists and turns. I got to a point that I couldn't put the book down, so I stayed up way too late to finish it.
I found this book to be excellent in developing the characters, such that I finished the book and felt like I knew the characters. For someone who has visited the south, and understands that it is a different culture from the one I grew up in, this book helped me to more deeply understand how one might have felt as they lived through the civil rights era in the south.
- Have any of you read the book? What did you think?
- Given that racism is everywhere, how would you classify the differences between the cultures of the north and south?
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