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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780399155345
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0399155341
Label: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
Manufacturer: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 464
Publication Date: February 10, 2009
Publisher: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
Studio: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
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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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I did not expect to enjoy this book but was surprised that I could not put it down. A great read!!!
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I couldn't put this book down. I found myself laughing out loud, crying at the terrible things that these women endured, and crying even more at the touching moments between these women and the children for which they cared. You won't be sorry if you buy this book!
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has to be without a doubt one of the best books i have read in so many years. you will laugh, cry and just shake your head through this novel....i grew up in the south, and i am proud someone wrote about this subject matter. it's just about time...it is honest....and yet beautiful..even magical. reading another book now, and cannot even get into the story...the help just blew me away with so many emotions. i am praying this is a movie! i even had to read outloud at times when reading this novel....because it was just that special.
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I loved this book! The women in it are amazing characters. I'm too young to have witnessed what it was like during the civil rights movement, but it made me ashamed anyway, reading how divided blacks and whites in the south were. We sure have come a long way!
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The Help is the most powerful book that I've read in a long time. I am both mortified and uplifted. Nothing predictable happens, the story unfolds naturally and the pacing is gripping.
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