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Book Summary. Winner of BookBrowse's 2009 Reader Awards. Three extraordinary women start a movement that forever changes a small town in 1960s Mississippi, and the way women — mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends — view one another. The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't.
Feb 10, 2009 · The Help, Kathryn Stockett. The Help is a 2009 novel by American author Kathryn Stockett. The Help is set in the early 1960's in Jackson, Mississippi, and told primarily from the first-person perspectives of three women: Aibileen Clark, Minny Jackson, and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan. Aibileen is a maid who takes care of children and cleans.
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Nov 3, 2009 · Kathryn Stockett, author of the popular novel “The Help.”. Erik S. Lesser for The New York Times. Ms. Stockett, 40, herself a native of Jackson, said the idea for the novel came to her in the ...
Feb 10, 2009 · In contrast, Stockett never truly gets inside Aibileen and Minnie’s heads (a risk the author acknowledges in her postscript). The scenes written in their voices verge on patronizing. This genuine page-turner offers a whiff of white liberal self-congratulation that won’t hurt its appeal and probably spells big success. 3.
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Kathyrn Stockett has scored a triumph in her very first novel, The Help. Written about race relations in Jackson, Mississippi during the early 1960s, this beautifully-written book is joyous, sad, funny, moving, poignant and heart-breaking. The Help is told in the voice of three women--one white and two black.
Apr 25, 2020 · The Help by Kathryn Stockett is fiction that reads like non-fiction; probably because it is in large part based on some of the experiences the author had as a child growing up in Mississippi. She explains this in an additional section at the back of the book. It took Kathryn Stockett five years to complete writing The Help and it was rejected ...
