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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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 21, 2009
Marlene Hurlburt
Loved it! I truly did not want it to end. It was laugh-out-loud funny yet disturbing especially to know these were not long ago times.
Great book! November 21, 2009
J. Reid (San Diego, CA USA)
Great book! Very interesting subject and characters, with all the elements of a great story: funny, sad, enlightening, suspenseful, touching, etc. Highly recommended!
Brava to a great debut writer! November 21, 2009
Julie Andrews (Peoria, Il)
The book's exterior story is the social turbulence of the 60's, but it is so much more. If you have ever been picked last, passed over, ignored, or ridiculed for any reason then this is the book for you. It is an totally absorbing, multilayered debut novel about Jackson, Mississippi "League" women who personally disdain their "Help" but would be lost without them. These insular society ladies are not aware that the Equal Rights Movement is occurring all around them, even when it's in their own kitchens. Ms. Stockett develops fully rounded characters, whether they are the "Help" or the Southern Ladies. The book's pacing is just right, not too slow, not frentic. Making me finish "just one more chapter before I tuck in tonight". If you love a great read, buy it, borrow it, or put it on your Christmas list.
 These time's are a changing November 20, 2009
simple sellers
The setting is early 1960's Mississippi.During the Kennedy adminstration,Before the British invasion. Young Skeeter Phelan has just graduated with honors from Ole Miss with an English Degree and can't get a job in her field.She becomes penpals with an big time editor in NYC who wisely tells her to write about what disturbs her.
It bothers her that people she thought were her friends start rumours that Skeeter is a lesbian because of her aggressive personality and her love of men's trouser pants.( Nothing else fits right cuz Skeeter's 6 foot tall.)
She makes friends with a black nanny ,Aibeleen who is an even better writer than Skeeter but was too shy to show anybody her stuff. Aibeleen tells her friend Minny who is infuriated by just about everything about the project and together the three of them start writing a bestseller about what it means to misunderstood and what they would change about the world if they could.
Aibeleen's story about Baby girl, whose skinny pretty mother is disgusted by the very sight of her own child broke my heart the most. I had to put it down many times because I was crying so hard. I wanted to jumped into the book and hug Aibellen and Baby Girl and tell them both they were special.
Minny , Aibeleen's sarcastic best friend made me laugh about all of the wierdo's she worked for and the Marilyn Monroe Lookalike she currently works for and how if you try to pull anything on her,she makes you eat '' Humble Pie''.
EXCELLENT BOOK! November 20, 2009
Gummi Addict (Sacramento, CA USA)
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Wonderful, thought provoking book - enjoyed it immensely and have passed it on to my daughter to read. Very, very good!
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