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The Help |  | Author: Kathryn Stockett
Publisher: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
Category: Book
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Rating:  1821 reviews
Sales Rank: 4
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 464
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.8
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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 It Just Works March 21, 2010
NorthShoreCanarie (New York)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I certainly had my gripes along the way, like the audacity of this woman writing in those black voices but hey, it was a great read and a great read is a treasure. The Help was for me one of those mysteriously riveting books that I actually did not want to like but could not help loving.
 Memorable characters March 21, 2010
Leah Gipson (Chesterfield, MO United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great story...not perfect. But days after finishing I couldn't get some of the characters out of my mind...always the sign of an effective book....
Wonderful moving story March 21, 2010
Andrefs (Long Island, New York, USA)
It was a wonderful moving story. Great for book club discussion. Can't wait for the movie!
The Help ---- AMAZING Book!! March 20, 2010
Sunnyside Up (Sacramento, CA, US)
I absolutely loved this book. It grasped me and did not let go for 450+ pages. I thought it was very well done in catching the small nuances in southern families both Southern white families and the African American families that provides support to them. Very enriching and I can't believe this is the author's first book. I hope she continues to write because she has a gift and I look forward to any of her future books.
I absolutely fell in love with this book! March 20, 2010
Sedona Leslie (Sedona, AZ)
I absolutely fell in love with this book. The characters were true & believable, with the richness of a fine dessert. The voices of Aibileen, Minny & Miss Skeeter jumped off the pages and into my ears, making me feel as though I was there with them. This is one of my all-time favorite books!
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