The Help

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Hardcover

English language

Published Jan. 13, 2009 by Thorndike Press.

ISBN:
978-1-4104-1553-0
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OCLC Number:
299281435

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Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss, but her mother will not be happy until she has a ring on her finger. Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Minny, Aibileen's best friend, can cook like nobody's business, but she can't mind her tongue so she can't keep a job. It's 1962, and these three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step that forever changes a town and the way women--mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends--view one another. (back cover)

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reviewed The Help by Kathryn Stockett

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Loved it. A very emotional story set in Jackson, Mississipi in the early 60s. We get three different PoVs: Aibileen and Minny, two black maids, and Skeeter, a white young woman who starts a project of interviewing maids about their work to make it as a big time author.

The only thing I found a bit grating at times was the dialect all the black characters used, whereas all white women spoke flawlessly. A bit too much. Other than that, it was a lovely read.

Subjects

  • Civil rights movements -- Fiction
  • African American women -- Fiction
  • Large type books
  • Jackson (Miss.) -- Fiction