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Author:

Stockett, Kathryn.

Title:

The help / Kathryn Stockett.

Edition:

Berkley trade pbk. ed.

Publisher:

Berkley Books,

Copyright Date:

2011, c2009

Description:

534 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Civil rights movements--Fiction.
African American women--Fiction.
Jackson (Miss.)--Fiction.
Civil rights movements--Fiction.
African American women--Fiction.
Jackson (Miss.)--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.

Summary:

Skeeter returns home to Mississippi from college in 1962 and begins to write stories about the African-American women that are found working in white households, which includes Aibileen, who grieves for the loss of her son while caring for her seventeenth white child, and Minny, Aibileen's sassy friend, the hired cook for a secretive woman who is new to town.

Indexed by:

Library Journal Starred, January 2009
Pub Weekly, December 2008
Kirkus Review, January 2009
Multicultural Review, June 2009
Library Journal Starred
Pub Weekly
Kirkus Review

ISBN:

0425232204
9780425232200 (pbk.)

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