The Help
Categories: Literature & Fiction
The Help is the 2009 debut novel of Kathryn Stockett. Set in Jackson, Mississippi, in the early 1960s, it tells the story of Skeeter Phelan, a young white woman who returns home from college hoping to become a writer. Skeeter secretly works with two Black maids, Aibileen Clark and Minny Jackson, to collect the stories of women who work in white households, despite the danger it brings to all of them. The novel became a major bestseller and was adapted into a 2011 film starring Viola Davis, Emma Stone and Octavia Spencer.
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- Stephen King: “The book is warm, decent, and often funny, but what elevates it — odd but true — are the hundreds of domestic details.”