I just read this book - I actually couldn't put it down it was so good - I read it all weekend. This book is about a young white woman in the 1960's who lives in Mississippi just having graduated college and trying to decide what she is going to do next. She likes to write so she contacts a publisher who tells her to write about what disturbs her. She decides to write about the black ladies' maids who take care of all the white families. Set in the south and during the civil rights era it shows how life was for these maids. It really opened my eyes to what happened back then. I would recommend it to anyone. The author actually grew up in Mississippi.
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