Book Review: The Help by Kathryn Stockett.
When the book gets published, people in Jackson start to realize the book is about them, but Minny’s plan works and Hilly tries to convince them otherwise. Skeeter ends up accepting a job as an editorial assistant in New York and, after a tearful goodbye with Aibileen, picks up and goes. Hilly, however, still tries to take revenge on the maids. Figuring out that Aibileen must have had a role.
Kathryn Stockett's 2009 debut novel, The Help, has been published in forty-two languages and sold ten million copies.It spent nearly two years on the New York Times best seller list. The popular movie of The Help, released in 2011, earned Octavia Spencer the Best Supporting Actress Oscar and won the cast numerous Screen Actors Guild awards.
Book Review: The Help by Kathryn Stockett. 16th August 2019. This page contains affiliate links. This means I receive a small commission for purchases made through these links, at no added cost to you. I first picked up The Help by Kathryn Stockett when my friend, Amy from Amy Buckle’s Bookshelf, recommended it to me. But it was so different to the usual books that I read that I struggled to.
Book Review: Reviewed by Eleanor Bukowsky (JUL 31, 2009) Kathryn Stockett’s The Help opens in Jackson, Mississippi in 1962. The story is told by three narrators: Aibileen, a kindhearted maid in her fifties, Miss Skeeter Phelan, an ungainly twenty-three year old who longs to be a writer, and Minny, another maid who cooks and bakes like a dream but can’t seem to keep her opinions to herself.
The Help by Kathryn Stockett Putnam, 464 pp. CLR (rating:3.5). The Help was a book we were told to read for African American Women’s History. I just yesterday turned to the last page and was nearly annoyed to see that a book written in the voice of the old south was a white girl. Its the trailer that delighted me as well as certain places within the written word. After I have finished.
The Help - Kathryn Stockett Summary: Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell.
The Help (ISBN: 9780241956533) Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. 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,. Becoming a member of the LoveReading4Kids community is free. No catches, no fine print just unconditional book loving for your children with.