The Help (Unabridged)
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4.7 • 381 Ratings
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
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.
Customer Reviews
So Moving And Beautiful
The Help is an eye opening, moving, and inspiring book. I love how well all the stories are written.
The voices for the characters were perfect. I loved it!
Watched the Movie
I watched the movie production of this book when I was in college and it too broke my heart into tiny pieces. Now, 8 years later, I read it. I love it with all my heart that I got left. In 2024, we need books like this now more than ever. I hear what the news says about immigrants and I can just hear a nation’s worth of Miss Hilly’s banging on their desks like 4 year old and like Miss Skeeter I can feel nothing else but disgust with my own neighbors and even my own family. I do appreciate that the times have gotten better, but progress is slow and I don’t think that good change is gonna happen in my lifetime. But I pray that it does.
An absolute comfort
This book is so well written from a continuity standpoint and is an emotional masterpiece. Thank you Kathrine Stokett!