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I think this book deserves the praise it has gotten, if for no other reason than that it has drawn attention once again to civil rights issues, and the subtle (and not so) subtle ways that we can attempt to rationalize away bigoted views and behaviors. The fact that the author attempts to tell the story from the perspective of both African-American and white characters, and that she avoids painting any one individual as all-victim or all-perpetrator, is commendable and truthful. And yet at the same time, she shows how even seemingly little actions by just a few individuals can lead to big social changes.
She takes some hits in other reviews here for an 'inauthentic' dialect for the African-American characters. While I can't speak to that personally, I did at times feel like some of the characters were a bit patronized and that made me uncomfortable. However, for me, even if that is the case, I think the strengths of the book override this issue, and I recommend this book to pretty much anyone.
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- ISBN13: 9780399155345
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
"The Help" Overview
Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.
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 of their own forever changes a town, and the way women—mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends—view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t.
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