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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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hi, i thought i had already contacted you that this book arrived with the binding completely broken. i have been reading it in groups of pages. very frustrating and i would like a new book or a refund. thank you, becky miller
Rating: 1 / 5
If you enjoy reading about how horrible life has been for blacks in this country and haven’t yet gotten enough of that in the last 100 years, have at it. Otherwise, find something entertaining that isn’t the same old “woe is me, I’m black” song-and-dance. Tiring story.
Rating: 1 / 5
try a sample saved me ten bucks
i got bored quickly reading black maids
kill the english language on and on and on for no purpose than to allow the author not to “write”
this isn’t literature but fodder for bleeding hearts
rrs in pa
Rating: 1 / 5
Read The Northern Clemency if you all want a page turner. Beautifully written account of England in the 1970′s.
The Help? I don’t understand what is happening in the world of novels! Why do I seem so alone on my not liking this book? In fact, I thought it should be entitled: Mississippi, the Darky State. Really offensive and still believe (of course my first review was not published and this one probably won’t be either because I’m writing the truth here) a story about a black family who have white help would be more interesting. Maybe Mrs. Obama will have some ideas, after her reign at the WHITE HOUSE.
Rating: 1 / 5
Subject says it all this book comes with DRM if bought on Kindle Store. DRM limits users freedom, remember the public relations nightmare Amazon had over the remote/automatic deletion of Kindle copies of the George Orwell book 1984 earlier in the year (2009). No company should even have this type of power. The Kindle, Kindle devices, Kindle Store and Kindle e-books with the Kindle DRM are defective by design.
Rating: 1 / 5