The Help |  | Author: Kathryn Stockett
Publisher: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 464
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.9 x 1.7
ISBN: 0399155341
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780399155345
ASIN: 0399155341
Publication Date: February 10, 2009
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Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.
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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Great work of fiction November 21, 2009
Cheryl Wedesweiler (So. Cal.)
The author writes with such familiarity with the times and Mississippi itself that you feel like you are inside the novel. I felt that I could see, hear, and feel Mississippi (although I have never been there). The novel takes place in a time before I was even born, 1963-1964. It was a blast from the pre-me past.
I loved all of the characters and they were so well developed that I cried, laughed, and felt fear with them. I was proud of their strengths and was astonished at the cruelty of some.
I absolutely loved how the maids helped to write the book. Help, that showed the plight of the maids in Jackson, MS in 1963. When a story of hardship exists it needs to be told and shown to everyone.
I am the author of Summer Born: A Life With Cerebellar Ataxia and Dreams in August: Life, Love, and Cerebellar Ataxia
The Help November 21, 2009
Birch Lake Mama (minnesota)
The Help was one of the better books that I've read in the last several years. (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was the Best) I grew up in the 60's and lived in the North, so I didn't witness the treatment of black women housekeepers. I did witness and protest the quota system for blacks in the LCMS University in Northern Indiana. I was shocked by that system in a christian college. Ms Hilly got her just desserts in this book twice. Its a good thought provoking read.
The Help, an excellent book depicting the treatment of Black maids during the '60's as the civil rights movement was emerging. November 21, 2009
Gail L. Brightbill
Though this is a fiction book written by a non-Black, the author skillfully depicts what life was like for Black women and men in the years before, during, and after they gained their civil rights. Those prejudices still exist in many circles and this book is an excellent reminder that the pursuit for equality is not over.
One of my all-time favorites November 21, 2009
rms (Connecticut USA)
One of the best books I have read in a while. I thoroughly enjoyed all 3 main characters. This will also make an excellent movie someday. So readable ... I flew through it. Made me want to read something that would give me more historical background about the events going on in this time period. Good recommendation for High School reading.
soozie November 21, 2009
Susan Kulik (east granby.ct)
I loved this book- could not put it down. Loved the authors own story at the end ...I found myself crying. I think our high school should put this on the summer read or at the very least a free choice for class.
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