Half Of A Yellow Sun

Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Publisher: Harper Perennial Published: 2007 Language: English Rating: 3.5/5 Blurb: In 1960s Nigeria, a country blighted by civil war, three lives intersect. Ugwu, a boy from a poor village, works as a houseboy for a university lecturer, Olanna, a young woman, has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos to live…

The Help

Author: Kathryn Stockett Publisher: Penguin Books Published: 2010 Language: English Rating: 4/5 Blurb: Enter a vanished world : Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver... There's Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her own son's tragic death; Minny, whose cooking is nearly as sassy…