The help / Kathryn Stockett.

By:

Stockett, Kathryn [Author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Penquin Books, 2010.Description: 451 p. ; 8 cmISBN:

9780141047706

Subject(s):

American fiction

DDC classification:

22 813.6 Sto

Summary: Enter a vanished world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren’t trusted not to steal the silver… There’s Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her own son’s tragic death; Minny, whose cooking is nearly as sassy as her tongue; and white Miss Skeeter, home from college, who wants to know why her beloved maid has disappeared. Skeeter, Aibileen and Minny. No one would believe they’d be friends; fewer still would tolerate it. But as each woman finds the courage to cross boundaries, they come to depend and rely upon one another. Each is in search of a truth. And together they have an extraordinary story to tell…

List(s) this item appears in: High School literature in English (Print Books)

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book Fiction	"Dimitris & Aliki Perrotis" Central Library	"Dimitris & Aliki Perrotis" Central Library	Book Fiction	813.6 Sto c.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		13019330
Book Fiction	"Dimitris & Aliki Perrotis" Central Library	"Dimitris & Aliki Perrotis" Central Library	Book Fiction	813.6 Sto c.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		13019465

Total holds: 0

Enter a vanished world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren’t trusted not to steal the silver… There’s Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her own son’s tragic death; Minny, whose cooking is nearly as sassy as her tongue; and white Miss Skeeter, home from college, who wants to know why her beloved maid has disappeared. Skeeter, Aibileen and Minny. No one would believe they’d be friends; fewer still would tolerate it. But as each woman finds the courage to cross boundaries, they come to depend and rely upon one another. Each is in search of a truth. And together they have an extraordinary story to tell…

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