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...
I decided to read the Help after hearing a bunch of positive reviews about the book and the movie. It took a little while to get into the book due to the different dialects of the characters but once I got over that, I was left with a wonderful story of what it was like to live in the south during the civil rights movement. This book not only highlighted the bad aspects of the black/white relationships of the time, but showed positive aspects as well. Definitely a good read!
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