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The Help |  | Author: Kathryn Stockett
Publisher: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
Category: Book
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Rating:  2526 reviews
Sales Rank: 10
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 464
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.4 x 1.4
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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 Loved this book September 7, 2010
Norma Crosby (Houston, TX USA)
I actually got the audiobook format of this title as a gift. If you haven't heard it, do yourself a favor and buy it. The readers do an excellent job of bringing the characters to life for you, and I think I heard nuances that I might have missed in print.
Whether you take my advice or simply read the print version of this book, by all means read it. I have not read a book this good in several years.
 Superficial, hated it! September 7, 2010
Loves to Read (Seattle, WA United States)
I wish I had known that the author had written from her memories and not from research. I grew up in that era in a nice upper middle class area but even I would tell you that the civil rights movement was NOTHING like the author portrayed! I am offended by her laziness in not doing research and I wish I could get my money back. This book makes those times seem like an inconvenience and that offends me, too. I know I am in the minority; all my friends love the book. I don't care, I hated it. I would give it a negative if I could.
wonderful , heart felt read September 7, 2010
The Reader
I didn't know what the book was about;I saw in TIME MAGAZINE that it was on Gwen Ifill's summer reading list.
I really enjoyed the book.I couldn't put it down.As an Afro-American and having worked as a maid 50 years ago, I shed so many tears, I had to stop reading @ times.It was very true to life.
Loved this book! September 6, 2010
Carol A. Shaffer (US)
One of the best books I've read in a long time. Loved the story, the style, and the realness of the characters. It's sad and funny and thought provoking. Can't ask for much else. Only criticism: the characters are a little black and white (really good or really bad):) But, that's okay, it's still a wonderful read. Maybe the author will write a sequel? I'd buy it.
The Book of the Year! September 6, 2010
The Book Oasis (Boston MA)
An amazing look into the lives of the women that raised generations of their white employers' babies. You don't want to put it down. Aibileen's story makes you want to hear more stories about the era, the people and the morals of the society she lived in. A must-read.
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