The Fulshear Night Readers’ Guild will meet at 6:30 p.m. May 24 in the meeting room at Fort Bend County Libraries’ Bob Lutts Fulshear/Simonton Branch Library, 8100 FM 359 South in Fulshear, to discuss Kathryn Stockett’s debut novel, “The Help.”
This novel of social awakening is set in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962. “Skeeter” Phelan has graduated from Ole Miss with a degree in English but without an engagement ring, much to her mother’s despair. While her married friends settle into domestic bliss, Skeeter decides to hone her writing skills, and looks to her community for inspiration.
Her interest is piqued by the social ironies of a society in which black women can be trusted to raise white children, but not to polish the silver or to use their employers’ restrooms. With the help of a black maid named Aibileen, who is raising her 17th white child, and Aibileen’s sassy friend Minny, who has lost another job because she can’t mind her tongue, Skeeter begins a clandestine project designed to bring public attention to the atrocities that society has chosen to ignore.
The book club is free and open to the public. For more information, call the branch at 281-346-1432 or the library’s Public Information Office at 281-341-2677.
