Книга: The Help (Stockett Kathryn) ; Penguin Putnam Inc., 2009

The wildly popular New York Times bestseller and reading group favorite.
Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who's always taken orders quietly, but lately she's unable to hold her bitterness back. Her friend Minny has never held her tongue but now must somehow keep secrets about her employer that leave her speechless. White socialite Skeeter just graduated college. She's full of ambition, but without a husband, she's considered a failure. Together, these seemingly different women join together to write a tell-all book about work as a black maid in the South, that could forever alter their destinies and the life of a small town. . .

It's a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. There's Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her own son's tragic death
Minny, whose cooking is nearly as sassy as her tongue
and, white Miss Skeeter, home from College, who wants to know why her beloved maid has disappeared.

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