2 Good Books

I've just finished reading this book and it is excellent. I can't wait to see the movie, although I can't imagine how they will be able to get all the subtle inferences across, that you read about. Three ordinary women take one extraordinary step, they come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. A young white woman in 1962 in Mississippi, writes the story of the' 'help'.

I read 'The Book of Negroes' by Lawrence Hill previously which was a fictional narrative about the slave population in the 1880's, based on a fascinating but little known historical document called the Book of Negroes. Here is a quote from Aminata, the storyteller. She evolves from a stolen village child in Africa  to the conscience of abolition in America.
 

An Excerpt

Let me begin with a caveat to any and all who find these pages. Do not trust large bodies of water, and do not cross them. If you, Dear Reader, have an African hue and find yourself led toward water with vanishing shores, seize your freedom by any means necessary. And cultivate distrust of the colour pink. Pink is taken as the colour of innocence, the colour of childhood, but as it spills across the water in the light of the dying sun, do not fall into its pretty path. There, right underneath, lies a bottomless graveyard of children, mothers and men. I shudder to imagine all the Africans rocking in the deep. Every time I have sailed the seas, I have had the sense of gliding over the unburied. Some people call the sunset a creation of extraordinary beauty, and proof of God's existence. But what benevolent force would bewitch the human spirit by choosing pink to light the path of a slave vessel?
This book was published in Australia, America and New Zealand under the title: Someone knows my name.