Faith in Fiction Book Group 

The Faith in Fiction Book Group will not meet in June, July or August. We will resume our time together in September at Hyperion on the third Friday of each month. 

Many of you do not stop reading in the summer. Here is a wonderful book that you may want to consider reading this summer, The Help by Kathryn Stocket. I found it to be a great book and a book that was hard to put down.  

The Help is set during the nascent civil rights movement in Jackson, Miss., where black women were trusted to raise white children but not to polish the household silver. Eugenia Skeeter Phelan is just home from college in 1962, and, anxious to become a writer, is advised to hone her chops by writing about what disturbs you. The budding social activist begins to collect the stories of the black women on whom the country club set rely on and mistrust by enlisting the help of Aibileen, a maid who's raised 17 children, and Aibileen's best friend Minny, who's found herself unemployed more than a few times after mouthing off to her white employers. The book Skeeter puts together based on their stories is scathing and shocking, bringing pride and hope to the black community, while giving Skeeter the courage to break down her personal boundaries and pursue her dreams.