The Help
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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