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Apr 05, 2011 | 544 Pages

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Feb 10, 2009 | 464 Pages

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    About The Help

    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.

    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 that leave her speechless. White socialite Skeeter just graduated college. She’s full of ambition, but without a husband, she’s considered a failure.

    Together, these seemingly different women join together to write a tell-all book about work as a black maid in the South, that could forever alter their destinies and the life of a small town…

    About The Help

    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.

    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 that leave her speechless. White socialite Skeeter just graduated college. She’s full of ambition, but without a husband, she’s considered a failure.

    Together, these seemingly different women join together to write a tell-all book about work as a black maid in the South, that could forever alter their destinies and the life of a small town…

    About The Help

    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.

    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 that leave her speechless. White socialite Skeeter just graduated college. She’s full of ambition, but without a husband, she’s considered a failure.

    Together, these seemingly different women join together to write a tell-all book about work as a black maid in the South, that could forever alter their destinies and the life of a small town…

    About The Help

    Be prepared to meet three unforgettable women.

    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.

    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 that leave her speechless. White socialite Skeeter just graduated college. She’s full of ambition, but without a husband, she’s considered a failure. Together these seemingly different women join together to write a tell-all book about work as a black maid in the South, that could forever alter their destinies and the life of a small town.

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    About Kathryn Stockett

    Kathryn Stockett was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. After graduating from the University of Alabama with a degree in English and creative writing, she moved to New York City, where she worked in magazine publishing and marketing for sixteen… More about Kathryn Stockett

    About Kathryn Stockett

    Kathryn Stockett was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. After graduating from the University of Alabama with a degree in English and creative writing, she moved to New York City, where she worked in magazine publishing and marketing for sixteen… More about Kathryn Stockett

    About Kathryn Stockett

    Kathryn Stockett was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. After graduating from the University of Alabama with a degree in English and creative writing, she moved to New York City, where she worked in magazine publishing and marketing for sixteen… More about Kathryn Stockett

    About Kathryn Stockett

    Kathryn Stockett was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. After graduating from the University of Alabama with a degree in English and creative writing, she moved to New York City, where she worked in magazine publishing and marketing for sixteen… More about Kathryn Stockett

    About Kathryn Stockett

    Kathryn Stockett was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. After graduating from the University of Alabama with a degree in English and creative writing, she moved to New York City, where she worked in magazine publishing and marketing for sixteen… More about Kathryn Stockett

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Berkley
    Apr 05, 2011 | 544 Pages | 5-1/16 x 8-1/4 | ISBN 9780425232200

    Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Hardcover | $26.95
    Published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons
    Feb 10, 2009 | 464 Pages | 6 x 9 | ISBN 9780399155345

    Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Berkley
    Feb 10, 2009 | 544 Pages | ISBN 9781440697661

    Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction | Audiobooks

    CD | $39.95
    Published by Penguin Audio
    Feb 10, 2009 | 1080 Minutes | ISBN 9780143144182

    Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $27.50
    Published by Penguin Audio
    Feb 10, 2009 | 1080 Minutes | ISBN 9781101022498

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    Praise

    Praise for The Help
     
    “The two principal maid characters…leap off the page in all their warm, three dimensional glory…[A] winning novel.”—The New York Times

    “This could be one of the most important pieces of fiction since To Kill a Mockingbird…If you read only one book…let this be it.”—NPR.org
     
    “Wise, poignant…You’ll catch yourself cheering out loud.”—People
     
    “Graceful and real, a compulsively readable story.”—Entertainment Weekly
     
    “A beautiful portrait of a fragmenting world.”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
     
    “The must-read choice of every book club in the country.”—The Huffington Post

    “At turns hilarious and heart-warming.”—Associated Press

    “In a page-turner that brings new resonance to the moral issues involved, Stockett spins a story of a social awakening as seen from both sides of the American racial divide.”—The Washington Post

    Awards

    Audie Awards WINNER 2010

    Boeke Prize WINNER

    Orange Prize for Fiction WINNER

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