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Three ordinary women are concerning to get one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home afterwards 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 locate solace together with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will inform Skeeter where she has gone. Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white kid. Something has shifted inside her afterwards the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks afterwards, though she recognizes together their hearts may be broken. Minny, Aibileen’s excellent friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody’s business, but she can’t intellect her tongue, so she’s lost yet another job. Minny finally locates a position working for someone too new to town to recognize her status. But her new boss has secrets of her own. Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come mutually for a clandestine project this will put them all at risk. And why? For the reason that they are suffocating inside the lines this define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed. In pitch-ideal voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to begin 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 together with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story concerning the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t.
Customer Reviews
A mostly splendid read   2010-03-20
By Tessa Weeks (Ventura, CA USA)
This was an emotional account of the experiences of black maids in 1960s Mississippi. At times funny and touching, it included disturbing accounts of how badly most of them were treated. I was in constant fear (as they must have been) that they would be found out and suffer horrible consequences. The ending was a tad unbelievable, but on the whole I really enjoyed this book.
A compelling read.   2010-03-19
By Barbara Newbern
I think a person would be hard pressed to find a better book than this one. It's about strong relationships during a very difficult time. It kept me up late. I recommend it without hesitaion.
Brilliant....   2010-03-19
By S. Dulai (San Antonio, Tx)
I had heard so much about this book from so many people and finally purchased it to read over my Christmas vacation. Well, I absolutely loved this book and read it in no time because I could not put it down. It was brilliantly written and pulled me into the story like so few books do these days. You must read this!
Loved it!   2010-03-19
By J. Marren (Glen Ridge, NJ USA)
"The Help" has held a place on the NYTimes bestseller list for a long time, and it's well-deserved. "The Help" is the compelling story of the life of two housekeepers in Jackson, Mississippi right in the middle of the Civil Rights movement of the 60's. We tend to focus on Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, the church bombing and other high-profile events of the era, but "The Help" shines a light on the daily lives of the thousands of black women who came into contact with the white world on a daily basis and suffered innumerable indignities, as well as real danger if they resisted. At the same time, Stockett portrays the close loving relationships that existed between the "help" and their charges that often lasted into adulthood (as long as the housekeeper wasn't suddenly fired!). I agree that this book could become a classic very quickly--it would even be appropriate for high school students--"To Kill a Mockingbird" for the 21st century. Highly recommended!
Must read and add to your personal library   2010-03-19
By Dena Hartigan (Phila, Pa)
The Help is one of the best comptemporary novels I have read in years. Everything about this story is as real as non-fiction. Read it for the dialogue channeled by Kathryn Stockett like she has multiple personalities. Read it for the slice of American history if you're too young to have lived it. Read it for the sheer pleasure of perfectly crafted sentence structure. Read it because it will be a movie soon and hopefully be as true as the treatment of The Secret Life of Bees on the big screen. And buy it and pass it around (be sure and put your name in the book so it ultimately lands back on your personal library shelf.