The Help is the story of three ordinary women, Skeeter, Aibileen, and Minny, set in Mississippi in 1962. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but her mother will not be happy until Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, although she knows both their hearts may be broken. Minny, Aibileen’s best friend, is perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody’s business, but she can’t mind her tongue, so she’s lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation, but her new boss has secrets of her own. Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t.
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