the Help

"Wise, poignant... You'll catch yourself cheering out loud." -People
"If you read only one book...let this be it." -NPR.org

Aibileen Clark is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, raising her deventeenth white chilf. She's always taken orders quitely, but lately it leavs her with a bitterness she can no longer bite back. Her friend, Minnie Jackson has certainly never held her tongue, or held on to a job for very long, but now she's working for a newcomer with secretd that leaver her speechless. And white socialite Skeeter Phelan has just returned from college with ambition and a degree but, to her mother's lament, no husband. Normally Skeeter would find solace in Constantine, the beloved maid who raised her, but Constantine has inexplicably disapperad.

Together, these seemingly different women join to work on a project that could forever alter their destinies and the life of a small town-to write in secret, a tell-all book about what it's really like to work as a black maid in the white homes of the South. Despite the terrible risks they will have to take, and the sometimes humorous boundaries they will have to cross, these three women unite with one intention: hope for a better day.

"It's the must-read choice of a every book club in the country... What is the big attraction? The Help is about something. That is something real. Something thqt matters.

Author: Kathryn Stockett 

Publisher: Berkley 

Released Date: 2010

ISBN: 9780425244296