Mehul Munwani Munwani itibaren Bidhnauli, Haryana, Hindistan itibaren Bidhnauli, Haryana, Hindistan

Ladies, you have Got to read this book. I laughed. I cried. I felt anger. I felt joy. Most of all, I felt a sense of pride in knowing how hard women have struggled over the past few decades to push past the racial lines descibed in this story to become the best of friends and learn one important thing: we are all sisters in this universe. I sincerely hope that Ms. Stockett does a follow-up to this story. I would love to catch up on Minnie, Abilene and Skeeter's lives a decade after this story ends.

This book is the reason I'm obsessed with Faulkner. This is also one of the few books I've been assigned to read and really enjoyed. It's extremely twisted and definitely contains elements of Southern Gothic irony. It tells the story of the Compson family who went from having nearly everything to almost nothing. Some critics believe this books was a metaphor for the fall of the south. The chapters are split into four sections each the told through the perspective of the four Compson children, Quentin Compson (the manic depressive), Jason Compson IV (the cynic and misogynist), Candace "Caddy" Compson (the rebel), and the severely autistic Benjamin "Benjy" Compson. Other characters include their parents raging alcoholic father Jason Compson III, and hypochondriac mother Caroline Compson as well as the caretakers Dilsey, T.P., Roskus, Versh, Luster and Frony.