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The Help. The Help is a historical fiction novel by American author Kathryn Stockett published by Penguin Books in 2009. The story is about African Americans working in white households in Jackson, Mississippi, during the early 1960s. A USA Today article called it one of the "summer sleeper hits ." [1] An early review in The New York Times ...
Feb 10, 2009 · Kathryn Stockett. 4.47. 2,783,922 ratings90,748 reviews. 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.
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Apr 5, 2011 · The Help. Paperback – April 5, 2011. 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.
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The Help Full Book Summary. In the summer of 1962 in Jackson, Mississippi, Aibileen Clark, a Black woman in her fifties, has been working for the white Leefolt family for two years as a maid and caretaker of their daughter, Mae Mobley. While working one day, Aibileen overhears a conversation between Elizabeth Leefolt and her friends, Skeeter ...
Learn about the plot, characters, and themes of The Help, a novel by Kathryn Stockett about black maids and white women in 1960s Mississippi. Find out how Skeeter, Aibileen, and Minny write a book that challenges the racial status quo and exposes the secrets of their community.
Feb 10, 2009 · The Help. Kathryn Stockett. Penguin, Feb 10, 2009 - Fiction - 544 pages. 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.
About The Help. The #1 New York Times bestselling novel and basis for the Academy Award–winning film. 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 ...
