"The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

I just finished reading Kathryn Stockett's The Help, 460 pages in less than two weeks (in English, not my mother tongue, remember), so you can imagine how hooked I was. It was a wonderful experience and mostly expected since it deals with two of my favourite topics: the 60s and civil rights (for black people, I mean). Narrated in first person by three women (two black, one white) it tells us the adventures these ladies had while trying to write a book about black maids in white Mississippi households. And I'm not telling more since I don't want to spoil it. If you are lazy to read it (I'm sure you're not) you will be able to watch the movie from August in the States and, unfortunatelly, October in Spain and UK. Here I leave you the trailer and two quotations from the book that depict its two dominant moods: happiness/hope and anger/disgust. 

Quotes:

• If chocolate was a sound, it would've been Constantine's voice singing. If singing was a color, it would've been the color of that chocolate.
• "You cannot leave a Negro and  Nigra together unchaperoned," Mother'd whispered to me a long time ago. "It's not their fault, they just can't help it."

And now, let's begin with Tokyo Blues by Murakami. Somebody read it?