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The Help |  | Author: Kathryn Stockett
Publisher: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
Category: Book
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Rating:  1748 reviews
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 464
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.8
ISBN: 0399155341
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780399155345
ASIN: 0399155341
Publication Date: February 10, 2009
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Product Description
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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 Great Book! March 9, 2010
Cheree Carlson (Princeton, MN USA)
I enjoyed reading this book and fell in love with the characters! The story was great and such an eye opener for me of a time that isn't too far off in our country's history. Thank you, Kathryn Stockett, for such a great book!
 Couldn't put it down, but disliked the ending March 9, 2010
Linda Downey (Buford, GA United States)
I bought this not knowing if I would enjoy it, but once I started reading I couldn't put it down! When I reached the end I was a little disappointed--it ends kind-of abruptly. I would have liked to have seen an epilogue or something to let you know what happens to the characters after the story ends. We get a little bit of information, but I wanted more! SPOILER ALERT! What happens with Skeeter's mother? Was Abileen a success at the paper? How did Skeeter like NY? What is Minny's life like after leaving Leroy and did she continue working for Celia? How far did Hilly really sink in her own pitiful life? Did Mae Mobley grow up to be a kind, loving girl or does she follow in Elizabeth's footsteps?
Maybe another book about these characters Ms. Stockett...?
One of 2009's Best Novels March 9, 2010
S. Collier
This really is one of the best novels of 2009! What an extraordinary peak into the hearts and minds of those who experienced the Civil Rights movement in Mississippi. Even though this was a novel, Stockett weaved in enough history to make this story real and believable. I truly cannot imagine what it must have been like to grow up in the South during the Civil Rights movement, but the keen insights from this book offer a glimpse of the trials and triumphs experienced by both sides. I highly recommend this book, and I hope that Stockett keeps writing! The Help is surely destined to become an American classic.
Great read March 9, 2010
Annette (Washington, DC)
I really enjoyed this book. I'm not usually a 5-star-er when it comes to books. I really liked the character development and I felt like it was realistic.
 Good intentions; poor execution March 8, 2010
twistyhair (Arlington, VA)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I struggled with this book from the very first pages because of the horrible mis-handling of Southern African-American vernacular. My next struggle was with editorial lapses such as proper placement of cultural and historical references, but overall, I get the book and its intention to show the common humanity of the characters, but I felt offended by an author who didn't or couldn't create 3-dimensional characters as I understand them.
It surprised me that this book made it to the bestseller list. To me, it seemed weak in its character and story development. I think though that readers who rated this book highly are typically people looking to understand a culture or viewpoint with which they are unfamiliar and this book made that culture/viewpoint accessible even if it's not a depiction that rings true to those of us who come out of the culture.
Further on the topic of vernacular, I found it noteworthy that only the Black characters in the book spoke in a vernacular even though various Southern dialects are well known and widely used in literature of and about the South. The way that language was used just made me cringe. 'Law', please save me from an author who seems to have stumbled upon two or three elements of speech and then repeated them ad naseaum.
I did not enjoy reading this book and I definitely did not feel that it was a fully dimensional charcterization of African American domestic workers but I appreciate that it creates the opportunity for dialogue.
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