The Help is Kathryn Stockett’s (Jackson, Mississippi) debut novel rendering black maids’ voices in a wonderful dialect (Law, it’s hot out there.), which takes some getting used to.
Jackson, Mississippi, 1962: black maids are raising white children, taking care of entire households and get paid peanuts.
The story has three narrators; Aibileen Clark Minny Jackson and Skeeter Phelan.
Aibileen, who is raising her seventeenth white child, lost her son Treelore when he was twenty-four years old. She is working for Miss Leefolt, raising Mae Mobly. Aibileen teaches Mae Mobly just about anything. But she is also responsible for the entire Leefolt household.
Minny, a hot-headed maid with 5 children. Minny is not afraid to sass-mouth anyone that gets
Jackson, Mississippi, 1962: black maids are raising white children, taking care of entire households and get paid peanuts.
The story has three narrators; Aibileen Clark Minny Jackson and Skeeter Phelan.
Aibileen, who is raising her seventeenth white child, lost her son Treelore when he was twenty-four years old. She is working for Miss Leefolt, raising Mae Mobly. Aibileen teaches Mae Mobly just about anything. But she is also responsible for the entire Leefolt household.
Minny, a hot-headed maid with 5 children. Minny is not afraid to sass-mouth anyone that gets