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The Help |  | Author: Kathryn Stockett
Publisher: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
Category: Book
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Rating:  2518 reviews
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Media: Hardcover
Pages: 464
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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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 An Alternate Opinion September 5, 2010
T. Smith (California wine country)
I grew up an hour's drive from Jackson, Mississippi, albeit a generation before that of Ms. Stockett, and this slight novel did not ring true in any way for me. I found the characters stock and unengaging, and the writing arch and contrived for cheap laughs. I was assured that I would recognize the characters, but I did not. The white women were a tiny bit more believable than the black women. The book's only real humor, for me, was in the parody of "high society" in the utterly provincial town of Jackson. I strongly suggest reading Eudora Welty to discover something more than the surface of Mississippi's shameful racist past (and present?).
A good comparison for this work would be John Kennedy Toole's "A Confederacy of Dunces" which brilliantly succeeds in interpreting life in New Orleans. Fanny Flagg's work is far far funnier, and more real.
 a look inward September 5, 2010
sharon bass
This book helped me look inward, to review my life and my personal growth over the years, I enjoyed reading the book.
I was so afraid as I read the book, MInnie and the others would be found out. True courage is the motivation to speak
out. I pray I have an understanding for all peoples suppressed in their life situations and that I may have compassion
and love for them. It is often one person or one situation at a time that brings about change. It may seem as if time is
standing still and no progress made, but time and God's will, not ours, will prevail.
Beautiful Book September 5, 2010
michael bernardo
What a great book by a first time author. It made me cry at times and laugh out loud at others. Can't wait to read more by her.
didn't want it to end September 5, 2010
Joy of Reading (Boston, MA)
Like almost everyone else, I loved this book. I bought it because it was recommended by a friend without knowing anything about it. Had I known it was about the racial struggles during the 1960's, I might have passed. But the story is much more than that. And the author's characterization is so realistic, she creates an emotional rollercoaster that you just don't want to end. I look forward to reading future works by her. And so will you.
 Perspective of the 60s segregation in the South September 5, 2010
Lance Finfrock (San Diego, CA USA)
A great book to get a perspective of the 60s segregation in the South. I have always heard that in the 60's there was a lot of racism, but I really did not realize how much. The book really shows how far racism has come in the last 50 years. I enjoyed seeing the story told from both perspectives, the black housemaids and the white employers.
The book read really well. I loved how the book was written in the black southern ascent (when in the view of the housemaids), but I was disappointed that they did not do the same for the white people. The book was written in a way that made you not want to stop reading it. Once I got about half way through the book, I kept finding myself wanting to know what was going to happen next. This made me read through the book really fast.
For one that did not live in the 60s, I would recommend this book to everyone.
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