The Help

Hardcover, 451 pages

English language

Published Nov. 22, 2009 by Amy Einhorn Books.

ISBN:
978-0-399-15534-5
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OCLC Number:
824626545

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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 …

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Subjects

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