The Help | Kathryn Stockett | Review of Audio version

The Help | Kathryn Stockett | Excellent Book

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	The Help Kathryn Stockett Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, 2009 - 464 pages average customer review:based on 2359 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.

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 Skeeter where she has gone.

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, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.

Minny, Aibileen?s best friend, is short, fat, and 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 nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.

In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women?mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends?view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don?t.

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Review of Audio version

The audio version of The Help is superb! The 3 women who read the parts of Skeeter, Aibileen, and Minnie are excellent. I know I would have enjoyed reading the book, but I really think that listening to this one (especially if you are not accustomed to reading or hearing southern dialect) is the best!

Excellent Book

This rates as the best book I have read in a long time (and I read a book a week, most genres). The writing is excellent, as is the pacing. A reader can understand the feelings of each character without the author belaboring the issues.

Tugs at your heartstrings

"The Help" is certainly a book that tugs at the readers heart strings. The reader's attention is captured within a few pages of starting this book. It gives insight into how "separate but equal" was justified by the Caucasian population in Mississippi, while also poignantly describing the politics of female interactions within both the black and white social circles. Your emotions will run the gamut by the end of this book. The author writes in prose, which makes the story more personal and relatable. Highly recommended!

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Riveting Book

This book was terrific, it was written from a different perspective and addressed part of American culture that is foreign to me. It was definatley a page turner, I could not put it down and I am not easily impressed or entertained.

An enlightening read

Our reading group (all retired public school teachers) chose this as our monthly read. We had just completed "Loving Frank" and found this a match for discussion of the position of women at different times in the 20th century. While race also become an issue in "The Help", the lack of rights and very limited voice of women in both were extremely interesting to us all. Some even remembered women in the same position as in "The Help" in the 60's in our own experience...and we were all raised in the Mid-West. Very good read although a bit slow at the beginning. Well worth the time and great for discussion.

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