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The Help Paperback - 2011

by Kathryn Stockett

In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another.


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Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who's always taken orders quietly, but lately she's unable to hold her bitterness back. Her friend Minny has never held her tongue but now must somehow keep secrets about her employer that leave her speechless. White socialite Skeeter just graduated college. She's full of ambition, but without a husband, she's considered a failure. Together, these seemingly different women join together to write a tell-all book about work as a black maid in the South, that could forever alter their destinies and the life of a small town...

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The #1 New York Times bestselling novel and basis for the Academy Award-winning film--a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't--nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who's always taken orders quietly, but lately she's unable to hold her bitterness back. Her friend Minny has never held her tongue but now must somehow keep secrets about her employer that leave her speechless. White socialite Skeeter just graduated college. She's full of ambition, but without a husband, she's considered a failure. Together, these seemingly different women join together to write a tell-all book about work as a black maid in the South, that could forever alter their destinies and the life of a small town...

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  • Title The Help
  • Author Kathryn Stockett
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 544
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Berkley Books, New York
  • Date 2011-04-05
  • ISBN 9780425232200 / 0425232204
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5 x 1.2 in (20.83 x 12.70 x 3.05 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1960's
    • Cultural Region: Deep South
    • Cultural Region: Mid-South
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Demographic Orientation: Rural
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Geographic Orientation: Mississippi
    • Locality: Jackson, Mississippi
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, African American women
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Ebony, 06/01/2011, Page 24
  • Entertainment Weekly, 03/25/2011, Page 82
  • Essence, 08/01/2011, Page 72
  • New York Times Book Review, 04/24/2011, Page 24
  • People Weekly, 04/11/2011, Page 57

About the author

Kathryn Stockett was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. After graduating from the University of Alabama with a degree in English and creative writing, she moved to New York City, where she worked in magazine publishing and marketing for sixteen years. She currently lives in Atlanta with her husband and daughter.
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