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.
“It's true. There are some racists in this town,” Miss Leefolt say.
Miss Hilly nod her head, “Oh, they're out there.”
Law, this book be good! I’m on tell you how good this book be. Everthing ‘bout this book be good, you gone read this book and you gone see what I’s mean. Law!
Ananat Prasad Sep 11th, 2013 @ 07:39 AM
It's true. There are some racists in this town,” Miss Leefolt say.
Miss Hilly nod her head, “Oh, they're out there.”
manoj kumar Sep 11th, 2013 @ 08:02 AM
“It's true. There are some racists in this town,” Miss Leefolt say.
Miss Hilly nod her head, “Oh, they're out there.”
Law, this book be good! I’m on tell you how good this book be. Everthing ‘bout this book be good, you gone read this book and you gone see what I’s mean. Law!
Ananat Prasad Sep 11th, 2013 @ 07:39 AM
It's true. There are some racists in this town,” Miss Leefolt say.
Miss Hilly nod her head, “Oh, they're out there.”