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The Help

By Stockett, Kathryn
The Help
In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another.

Details

Authors: Stockett, Kathryn
Copyright: 2009
Format: Hardcover
GTIN13: 9780399155345
ISBN10: 0399155341
Page Count: 464
Dimensions: 6.43x1.39x9.17
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons

Strand Notes

Set deep in the heart of Mississippi, circa 1962, "The Help" offers readers an enchanting and original journey into the trying lives and times of three very different women who chose to come together for a common cause. In this book we are introduced to 22 year-old Skeeter, who has recently graduated school and is being pushed into marriage; Aibileen, a wise and regal maid whose troubles as an African American in Mississippi are enough on their own; and Aibileen's best friend Minny, whose just been put out of another job and is in need of help. Through author Kathryn Stockett's touching and remarkable characters this moving narrative will take readers by the hand and lead them to new places.

Description

The #1 New York Times bestselling novel and basis for the Academy Award-winning film--a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't--nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read.

Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who's always taken orders quietly, but lately she's unable to hold her bitterness back. Her friend Minny has never held her tongue but now must somehow keep secrets about her employer that leave her speechless. White socialite Skeeter just graduated college. She's full of ambition, but without a husband, she's considered a failure.

Together, these seemingly different women join together to write a tell-all book about work as a black maid in the South, that could forever alter their destinies and the life of a small town...

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