The Help - Kathryn Stockett

Condition: Acceptable / Good / Very good / Like new

Condition notes: First page folded in the bottom right corner, signs of wear on the back cover

Summary: In Jackson, Mississippi, Black women clean, cook, and care for children in white households. It's 1962, and racial laws are in full force. In forty years of service, Aibileen has learned to hold her tongue. The insolent Minny, her best friend, has just been fired. If things get worse, she'll have to look for work in another city. She might even have to move to another state, like Constantine, who hasn't been seen here since the Phelans dismissed her for unspoken reasons.

But Skeeter, the Phelans' daughter, is not like the others. Back in Jackson after her studies, she is determined to find out why Constantine, who raised her with love for twenty-two years, left without even a word.

The young white socialite and the two Black maids, driven by a quiet desire to change things despite their fear, will unite their destinies and, in great secrecy, write a moving story.

Genre: Historical Fiction, Classic

Publisher: Actes Sud, Babel collection

Format: Paperback

Publication date: 2012

Number of pages: 608

ISBN: 9782330013073