The Help
by Kathryn Stockett · 2009
Literary Fiction · ranked #156 in category
Skeeter Phelan, a white aspiring writer in 1960s Jackson, Mississippi, partners with two Black maids — Aibileen and Minny — to secretly publish a book of accounts from domestic workers. Stockett's debut novel was an enormous commercial success and is also one of the most debated novels about race, voice and the ethics of who tells whose story.
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