| The Help |  | Author: Kathryn Stockett
Publisher: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
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Rating:  2531 reviews
Sales Rank: 12
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 464
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.4 x 1.4
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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 Dialect-o-rama September 8, 2010
B. Powell (Portland, OR USA)
I am struck by the number of reviews based mostly in regard to dialect in this book. WhenI first heard KS interviewed on NPR about this book, she said that was the hardest part, "to capture the voice of the character."
One thing I am particularly interested in is how KS captured they way each character "heard" and "said" the dialect of other characters. The way Skeeter demonstrates Minny is different from the way Aibileen demonstrates Minny. I also think it's funny how Minny demonstrates Hilly Holbrook compared to the way Aibileen does. It's a character development tool, and a clever one.
While, I too, would have expected a few more verbs ending in -in' and not -ing, I do think that Minny & Aibileen using verbs ending in "-ing" to characterize the white women in their lives only drives home their view of those ladies, whether it's Skeeter, Hilly or Celia (who had a different twang altogether).
While I have read this book, I fully recommend the audio version of this book. It reveals some different levels that I think are missed in a simple read.
Would enjoy reading your opinion about this, too.
The Help September 7, 2010
Lynda Hammel (Herndon, VA United States)
The Help is a very thought provoking book. I'm sure there will be a lot of discussion at book club.
a must read for everyone September 7, 2010
sage junction (ND)
Wow. I read this book this week, and was stunned. It is a beautiful window into the way things were in the early 60s. No wonder I had to wait for months to get it from the library.
I am sure many others have explained more about the plot so I won't. Loved it.
 Couldn't Put it Down! September 7, 2010
M. Ingham (REDWOOD ESTATES, CA, US)
I could not put this book down. It was incredible. The only reason I didn't give it five stars is because I didn't particularly love the end. I wanted to know more about what happened to specific characters that I had gotten attached to!
 Trite and Unrealistic September 7, 2010
C. Edwards
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
You'll probably like this book if you would have been the person with help. You probably won't like this book if you would have been the help. If you're in the mood for a feel good story about a mammy and the vapid white girl she's forced to pretend she loves while her own child(ren) have no one to take care of them, watch Gone with the Wind and save yourself a few hours.
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