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April 2011
On Sale: April 5, 2011
Featuring: Minny; Aibileen; Skeeter
528 pages
ISBN: 0425232204
EAN: 9780425232200
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Be prepared to meet three unforgettable women: 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...
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Re: The Help
this book sounds amazing to read.
(Gloria Walshver 11:50pm June 4, 2011)
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