Books on Monday: The Help
Here’s an extremely exciting novel that came out just last week. I was asked if I wanted to read it in advance, and I’m very glad that I did, because — in light of what happens in the book — that really did make the reading even more exciting.
Even so, I should also have enjoyed knowing that thousands, if not millions, of other readers were loving it or had loved Kathryn Stockett’s The Help already. I certainly hope that that’s what happens, because the intertwined tales of Aibileen, Minny, and Skeeter have the feel of an American classic. And the rogues gallery of horribly hateful anti-heroines needs a new niche, for Miss Hilly Holbrook.