|  | Author: Kathryn Stockett
Publisher: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
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Rating:  1155 reviews
Sales Rank: 6
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 464
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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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EXCELLENT BOOK! November 20, 2009
Gummi Addict (Sacramento, CA USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Wonderful, thought provoking book - enjoyed it immensely and have passed it on to my daughter to read. Very, very good!
A must read! November 20, 2009
Bookie (Mid West USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I knew nothing about this book and a good friend said she loved it. I was engrossed from the first chapter. Stockett is a great story teller and the characters are so memorable. This is a book club "must read". The Help will generate great conversation.
 One View of Race Relations in the Jim Crow South November 20, 2009
Karen (Washington, DC)
This engaging book is the story of the relationship between African-American maids and their white employers in segregated Mississippi. The story is told through three characters: two maids (Aibileen and Minny) and Miss Skeeter, a young white woman, raised with all the privileges of white society, but who feels alienated from her class and race. The main plot line of the story is Miss Skeeter and "the help" working together to write an anonymous book about what it is like to be an african-american maid in the early 1960s South. But the sub-text of this plot is a rich description and depiction of other social issues: what is means to be an independent young, white woman in a patriarchical society; the butality of racism. I gave this book 4 stars instead of 5 because I found the ending unrealistically happy -- each of three characters not only comes out ok, but thrives. This book is worth reading.
Loved This Book! November 20, 2009
Susan Cornett (Oklahoma)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I truly loved this book. It was one of those wonderful books that you hate to finish. I kept thinking of the characters in the book and wanted to know how they were doing. I felt like some good friends had moved away and I wanted to be in touch with them. I have loaned this book to both of my daughters, recommended it to a friend who loved it also and have a copy purchased for a friend for a Christmas gift. It certainly gives insight to such a sensitive time in our history. I wanted to keep reading but hated for it to end. Great book!
 Lame November 20, 2009
Joanne H. Salmi
0 out of 9 found this review helpful
I got to the third page of this book and decided the author probably never knew someone with well established roots in the Southern part of the United States. The author's hypothetical quotes for the "help" were awful and demeaning. A character saying "I'm gone to do it" as "I'm going to do it", is definitely misleading. Southerners may abbreviate their verbs, but don't get the verb wrong. "Gone" and "Gon..." are definitely different to me when reading text.
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