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Be prepared to meet three unforgettable women: Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone. Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken. Minny, Aibileen’s best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody’s business, but she can’t mind her tongue, so she’s lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own. Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless 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. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed. In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women—mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends—view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t.

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The Help, by Kathryn Stockett, follows the lives of three women living in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi. Two of the women, Aibilene and Minny are black, hired as help to wealthy, or trying to appear wealthy, white families. E...more...]]> 5 8 false false Thu Feb 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 04 15:35:45 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 08:13:55 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 3 false false Sat Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 09:14:10 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 16:44:53 -0700 2009
Eugenia (known to everyone as Skeeter) is a young white woman and aspiring author who has just returned ...more...]]> 5 6 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Feb 04 18:02:39 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 18:03:02 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 4 false false Fri Aug 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 13:50:32 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 16:08:30 -0700 2009 I LOVE this book, with it being one of my favorite book ever. The Help is well written and well researched, g...more...]]> 5 4 false false Tue Jan 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 21 12:54:01 -0800 2009 Thu Jul 09 09:42:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 6 false false Tue Mar 10 07:15:33 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 07:27:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 8 false false Wed Mar 11 08:27:29 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 11 08:31:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 3 false false Sat Mar 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 17:35:23 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 08 07:14:22 -0700 2009
The story takes place in Jackson, Mississippi, in the early 1960s. It is a story about the lives of black maids and the white women who employ...more...]]> 5 9 false false Wed Mar 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 28 08:16:51 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 05:39:38 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 3 false false Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 11:58:03 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 18:50:40 -0700 2009
I'm glad I'm listening to this one, rather than just reading it, but I will probably buy the book too...more...]]> 5 3 false false Sun Feb 08 17:23:17 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 17:25:56 -0800 2009 Set in the early sixties in Jackson, Mississippi, The Help is an incredible debut novel told from the point of view of three different narrators: Aibileen, a single black woman in her fifties is a domestic for a young family with one child, Minny is a younger married woman with a houseful of k...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Mar 11 20:55:07 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 20:17:10 -0700 2009
Three different women describe the events of a year, year-and-a-half.
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