The help
By: Kathryn Stockett
Publisher: Fig Tree; Penguin Canada; Penguin Books; FIG TREE
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 451
ISBN-13: 9780241956533; 9781905490431; 9780141039282; 9780241950807
Subjects: Race relations; African American women; Social conditions; Civil rights movements; African American women household employees; Fiction
Description: Aibileen is a black maid, raising her 17th white child, but with a bitter heart after the death of her son. Minny is the sassiest woman in Mississippi. Skeeter is a white woman with a degree but no ring on her finger. Seemingly as different as can be, these women will come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk.
Notes: Originally published: 2009.

Aibileen is a black maid, raising her 17th white child, but with a bitter heart after the death of her son. Minny is the sassiest woman in Mississippi. Skeeter is a white woman with a degree but no ring on her finger. Seemingly as different as can be, these women will come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk.
Table of contents: title: It's Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Miss Skeeter, Aibileen and Minny. Black and white. No one would believe they'd be friends; fewer still would tolerate it. But as each woman finds the courage to cross boundaries, they come to depend and rely upon one another.