Book Club

Spider web in the morning sun

This week I became an official member of the Book Club that meets at the county library once a month.  There were about 25 ladies and two men at this weeks' meeting.  Last month they had read The Help.  The Help is about a young white woman in the early 1960s in Mississippi who becomes interested in the plight of the black ladies' maids that every family has working for them. She writes their stories about mistreatment, abuse and heartbreaks of working in white families' homes, all just before the Civil Rights revolution.

Many of the ladies at the book club were born and raised in the deep south-Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and they said the book captured the real essence of the era.  Some of their moms were in the junior league and many of them had black maids who helped raise them. It was interesting to get their take on the book, which is the opposite of the way this Yankee girl was raised.


This month the book we are reading is called Mudbound, which set on a farm in Mississippi in 1946.

The view from my back porch this morning.