Katherine Stockett: The Help

The American South, the 1960s. Skeeter has just graduated from university and returned home to the sleepy town of Jackson, where nothing ever happens. She dreams of becoming a writer and breaking out into the big world. But it is not proper for a respectable Southern girl to entertain such foolish illusions; a respectable girl should get married and busy herself with housekeeping.
Wise Aibileen is thirty years older than Skeeter; she has been working as a domestic in white households her whole life, has raised seventeen children, and has long expected nothing from life, for her heart was broken after the death of her only son.
Minny is the best cook in all of Jackson, and she is also the sassiest maid in town. Her sharp tongue has done her a disservice more than once. Minny never stays in one place for long. But even the most arrogant white ladies would do well not to mess with Minny.
Two black maids and an inexperienced white girl are united by one thing—a keen sense of justice and a desire to change the order of things, if only a little. Will these three be able to stand against the entire world? Will they be able to survive this struggle?

Author: Kathryn Stockett

Pages: 512 (offset). Hardcover

Dimensions: 205x135x30 mm