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The Help

4.46 ( 2,304,818 Ratings by Goodreads)
The Help

The Help

4.46 (2,304,818 Ratings by Goodreads)
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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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Type Book
ISBN13 9780425245132
ISBN10 0425245136
Number Of Pages 544
Item Weight 407 g
Product Dimensions 127 x 30 x 208 mm
Publisher / Reseller Berkley Publishing Group
Format paperback
Edition Mti
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Praise for The Help

This could be one of the most important pieces of fiction since To Kill a Mockingbird If you read only one book let this be it. NPR.org
Wise, poignant You ll catch yourself cheering out loud. People

Graceful and real, a compulsively readable story. Entertainment Weekly
A beautiful portrait of a fragmenting world. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The must-read choice of every book club in the country. The Huffington Post

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Author's Bio

Kathryn Stockett was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. After graduating from the University of Alabama with a degree in English and Creative Writing, she moved to New York City where she worked in magazine publishing and marketing for nine years. She currently lives in Atlanta with her husband and daughter. This is her first novel.

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