The Help

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"Wise, poigndnt You'll catch yourself cheering out loud."—People "If you read only one book let this be it."—NPR.org
Aibileen Clerk is a block moid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, raising her seventeenth white child. She's always taken orders quietly, but lately it leaves her with a bitterness she con no longer bite bock. Her friend Minny Jackson has certainly never held her tongue, or held on to a job for very long, but now she's working for a newcomer with secrets that leave her speechless. And white socialite Skeeter Phelan has just returned from coltege^ith.^mbitron and a degree but, to her mother's lament, no husband. Normdily Skeeter would find solace in Conston-tine, the beloved maid who raised her, but Constantino has inexplicably disappeared.
Together, these seemingly different women join to work on a project thar could forever alter their destjnies and the life of a small town-to write, in secret, a tell-all book about what it's really like to work as a black maid in the... Tovább

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"Wise, poigndnt You'll catch yourself cheering out loud."—People "If you read only one book let this be it."—NPR.org
Aibileen Clerk is a block moid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, raising her seventeenth white child. She's always taken orders quietly, but lately it leaves her with a bitterness she con no longer bite bock. Her friend Minny Jackson has certainly never held her tongue, or held on to a job for very long, but now she's working for a newcomer with secrets that leave her speechless. And white socialite Skeeter Phelan has just returned from coltege^ith.^mbitron and a degree but, to her mother's lament, no husband. Normdily Skeeter would find solace in Conston-tine, the beloved maid who raised her, but Constantino has inexplicably disappeared.
Together, these seemingly different women join to work on a project thar could forever alter their destjnies and the life of a small town-to write, in secret, a tell-all book about what it's really like to work as a black maid in the white homes of the South. Despite the terrible risks they will have to take, and the sometimes humorous boundaries they will hove to cross, these three women unite with one intention: hope for a better day
"Its the must-read choice of every book club in the country What is the big attraction? The Help is about something. That is, something real. Something that matters.'—The Huffington Post
INCLUDES AN ESSAY BY KATHRYN STOCKETT AND A READING GROUP GUIDE Vissza