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    The Help (Paperback) By (author) Kathryn Stockett

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    Short Description for The Help In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another.
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    Title
    The Help
    Authors and contributors
    By (author) Kathryn Stockett
    Physical properties
    Format: Paperback
    Number of pages: 534
    Width: 127 mm
    Height: 208 mm
    Thickness: 30 mm
    Weight: 408 g
    Audience
    General/trade
    Language
    English
    ISBN
    ISBN 13: 9780425245132
    ISBN 10: 0425245136
    Classifications
    Dewey: 813/.6
    BISAC category code: FIC014000
    Dewey: FIC
    BISAC category code: FIC019000
    Dewey: 813.6
    Nielsen BookScan Product Class: F1.1
    BICMainSubject: FA
    Edition
    Media tie-in
    Edition statement
    Media Tie In, Reissue
    Publisher
    Penguin Putnam Inc
    Imprint name
    Penguin USA
    Publication date
    28 June 2011
    Publication City/Country
    New York, NY/US
    Main 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.
    Biographical note
    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 nine years. She currently lives in Atlanta with her husband and daughter. This is her first novel.