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The tenderness, sweetness, vulnerability, human imperfections; I ached all the way through this book. I would compare it to other great works; the Help, To Kill A Mockingbird. All of my emotions were raw while reading about these characters, whom the author so well developed. If you only read one book this year, let it be this.....
This is my current audio pick. I was skeptical--would it just be a rip-off of "The Help?" No! Yes it is about a family and their African American maid in the segregated South of 1954. Yes, it does show the callous disregard for the maid's feelings and the family's often unquestioning acceptance of the same. And, yes it shows completely degrading behavior towards an African American woman--an eerily real and unforgetable scence. Otherwise it's the story of a family intertwined with a story of the
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