This small book packs a huge wallop, as they say. It is compared to The Help, but I found it more heartbreaking, earth shattering, whatever adjectives you want to use. A young girl in North Carolina learns too early and fast about life. Back in the '50s, many white families had black maids, or as they were called, 'girls'. What happens in this story is more than likely not unusual, for the times. Certainly one of the best books I have read in a while.
