The Help (Hardcover)
- Category: Fiction
- Publisher: Putnam Adult (Feb 10, 2009)
Our Shelf Talker
R.J. Julia Top 10 Fiction Book of 2009Aibileen and Minny are best friends and maids living during the time of Civil Rights. They find an unusual ally in Miss Skeeter, who recently graduated from Ole Mississippi and has her own views of the way things should be – much to the dismay of her lifelong friends. Each of the three take turns narrating and therefore take turns as your favorite character. Their voices, lives, and struggles remain with you page after page. The only thing that disappoints about The Help is that it ends! I loved this fabulous book.
- Lori
Description
Aibileen is a black maid, raising her seventeenth white child. She is a smart, regal woman, but a bitter seed has been planted in Aibileen's chest after the death of her son. Aibileen's best friend, Minny, is the sassiest woman in Mississippi, and goes through jobs like water. And Skeeter is just back from college, a white woman with a degree but, to her mother's chagrin, no ring on her finger. Too tall and too smart for her own good, she now discovers her beloved maid Constantine has disappeared without a trace.
Seemingly as different as can be, these women will come together for a clandestine project that will put all of them at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, Aibileen, Minny, and Skeeter start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women - black and white, mothers and daughters - view one another.
Seemingly as different as can be, these women will come together for a clandestine project that will put all of them at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, Aibileen, Minny, and Skeeter start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women - black and white, mothers and daughters - view one another.