The Help |  | Author: Kathryn Stockett
Publisher: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
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Rating:  1087 reviews
Sales Rank: 6
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 464
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
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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Product Description
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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The Help November 7, 2009
Leslie Fox (Puyallup, WA USA)
Wonderful book. If you have the opportunity to listen to this book (eg. audible) I would highly recommend the audiobook version.
An unforgettable and "must read" novel November 7, 2009
Laurie E. Verson (OH)
I absolutely adored this book!!!
I adored the characters which Ms. Stockett created. The dialect of each woman made the story equally enjoyable.
It is quite an educational book which depicts the shameful manner in which the African American people were treated in the 60's, in the south.
I can only say that it is worth every penny!
 Worth reading November 6, 2009
Starlette Casey (Lemoore, california USA)
While I wouldn't call "The Help" a page turner it was interesting enough to finish. Good character development and discussion of important issues.
Lived up to the all the 5 star ratings November 6, 2009
Brittany Evans (Salt Lake City, UT USA)
Ok I see why this books is so popular and got as many good reviews as it did. This book is excellent. I saw it at my local bookstore front and center and never picked it up. But I found that this book was completely original and I was completely sucked into the stories of all 3 narrators. This being the author's first book, I'm impressed. Pick this book up, don't think about it, it's excellent.
BEST reading November 6, 2009
J. Vocino (Novi, MI USA)
Highly recommend - my book group met last night and no one rated it lower than 8/10 and many were 10/10, including me. A joy to read. You'll laugh, cry and learn a great deal about the early civil rights movement in the South. A treasure.
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