| The Help |  | Author: Kathryn Stockett
Publisher: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
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Edition: 1
Pages: 464
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.8
ISBN: 0399155341
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780399155345
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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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 Loved it! March 19, 2010
J. Marren (Glen Ridge, NJ USA)
"The Help" has held a place on the NYTimes bestseller list for a long time, and it's well-deserved. "The Help" is the compelling story of the life of two housekeepers in Jackson, Mississippi right in the middle of the Civil Rights movement of the 60's. We tend to focus on Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, the church bombing and other high-profile events of the era, but "The Help" shines a light on the daily lives of the thousands of black women who came into contact with the white world on a daily basis and suffered innumerable indignities, as well as real danger if they resisted. At the same time, Stockett portrays the close loving relationships that existed between the "help" and their charges that often lasted into adulthood (as long as the housekeeper wasn't suddenly fired!).
I agree that this book could become a classic very quickly--it would even be appropriate for high school students--"To Kill a Mockingbird" for the 21st century. Highly recommended!
Must read and add to your personal library March 19, 2010
Dena Hartigan (Phila, Pa)
The Help is one of the best comptemporary novels I have read in years. Everything about this story is as real as non-fiction. Read it for the dialogue channeled by Kathryn Stockett like she has multiple personalities. Read it for the slice of American history if you're too young to have lived it. Read it for the sheer pleasure of perfectly crafted sentence structure. Read it because it will be a movie soon and hopefully be as true as the treatment of The Secret Life of Bees on the big screen. And buy it and pass it around (be sure and put your name in the book so it ultimately lands back on your personal library shelf.
Best book you'll read this year March 19, 2010
Robin Ryan, author and career coach (Seattle, WA United States)
Extraordinary storytelling, realistic characters, interesting plot, fast moving, and if you don't read anything else --READ THIS BOOK. It's engrossing and you'll hate to see it end because the author draws you into this Southern '60s world where the characters feel like real live people telling a true story. I loved every page -- you've got to read it!
 Dynamic story March 19, 2010
J. Ouzounian (Oregon)
I liked this book mostly because of the characters. By the end of the book I deeply cared about them. They felt like friends, and I was invested in how things would turn out for them.
I wish the ending had a little more about what did happen to them after they told their stories. They ran a great risk describing their lives as servants to their mostly provincial and bigoted white employers, raising their children, cleaning their homes, supporting the household. I wanted to hear more about whether and how their lives changed.
This is not a formula book. There are a few surprises. It is a quick read that keeps your attention to the end. The author uses three main characters to tell the story, and to me their voices are real and expertly place the setting in the south.
Excellent first book March 19, 2010
Peebs (Texas)
Having grown up in Louisiana in the 60's, this book brought back memories. I thought it was wonderful, it certainly brought back memories of 'the help' that worked for our family. I want my mother to read this book and then I'd love to talk to her about it - were things that way when we lived in Shreveport? I don't think her friends talked and treated their maids that way, but I can't know for sure and the biggest question is, will my mother talk to me about this? I think so, and I hope so. The book touched my heart,can't wait for the next one by Ms. Stockett. Bravo!
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