The Help
Imprint: Books on Tape
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Release Date: February 10, 2009
18 Hours and 8 Minutes
List Price: $95
ISBN: 9781415961261
Categories:
Fiction - Literary
Tags: civil rights, mississippi, historical fiction, racism, 1960s, race relations, maids, segregation, women, race, friendship, historical, south, american south, southern fiction, african americans, african american, usa, southern, history, america, american, the south, adult, civil rights movement, relationships, writing, servants, prejudice, writers
Tags: civil rights, mississippi, historical fiction, racism, 1960s, race relations, maids, segregation, women, race, friendship, historical, south, american south, southern fiction, african americans, african american, usa, southern, history, america, american, the south, adult, civil rights movement, relationships, writing, servants, prejudice, writers
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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, 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.
Minny, Aibileen’s best friend, 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.
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.
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.
Minny, Aibileen’s best friend, 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.
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.
