Number of Pages: 451
Publisher: Amy Einhorn Books
Release Date: February 10, 2009
"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."
- Goodreads.com
This is an amazing book. I was hesitant to read it at first, because I've heard mixed reviews about it, but I am so glad that I finally decided to read it. I loved how the plot progresses so smoothly, and at the end everything falls into place just so perfectly. The characters have so much depth to them that I felt like I knew them personally. I couldn't believe that this was Kathryn Stockett's first book because it is written so beautifully and expertly. I don't have any complaints about this book whatsoever.
I recently watched the movie of this book, and in my opinion the book is definitely better. I mean, the movie is really good too, but it just isn't the same as the book. There is so much more to the story than what they could fit in a movie, so it's definitely worth reading the book.
My Rating: :0) :0) :0) :0) :0) 5 out of 5 smileys
Would I recommend it to a friend?: Absolutely. This is a definite must-read!!!!
Yours,
Aceba
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