Kathryn Stockett was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. After graduating from the University of Alabama with a degree in English and Creative Writing, she moved to New York City where she worked in magazine publishing and marketing for nine years. She currently lives in Atlanta with her husband and daughter. This is her first novel.
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.
我觉得,所有现实主义作品都是在重申常识,而最基本的常识可以概括为:爱心,正义,善良。看上去挺简单,但我敢说,人生短暂,大部分人终其一生也未必能够搞清楚这三件常识。恐怕有史以来打着正义旗号的恶行罄竹难书—谁会大声宣布自己是在作恶呢?而愚蠢的善行也给世界带来许...
评分我们中的很大一部分人曾想过自己写一部小说,在一次又一次失败过后,就开始一部接一部地读别人的小说,读越来越厚的小说,仿佛心甘情愿被陌生的故事榨干自己的时间。 我们的愿望只剩下可怜巴巴的一个,希望手里的这个故事被讲的简单动听。 有些人写到八十岁第九十本书时才明白...
评分花了一个下午和一个晚上把这本书一气呵成的看完了。入夜后闭上双眼,仿佛仍沉浸其中。 这是一个怎样的故事?简单来说,就是一个白人小姐和两个黑人女佣不顾艰难险阻,勇敢写就《女佣》一书的故事。 艾碧莲、明尼、小雯、西丽、希莉亚、伊丽莎白……这些女人们扮演着不同的角...
评分我时常真心的羞愧:我太狭隘了。 昨天花了一整天的时间,一口气读完了《相助》, 明天要去雨枫书店,和水木丁对谈这本书。 很多电影是电影史上的经典,明明知道技法牛逼,观念牛逼,艺术牛逼, 但是它走不进我的心里,我不喜欢它们。 很多电影只是电影史上的二流电影,甚至一...
评分刚拿到这本书的时候,心里说,幸好是现在,幸好为避免思考力下降,遂重燃知晓陌生世界的兴趣。否则我不太可能自汪洋书海中独捡来这一本——如果说如今的书为吸引眼球都难免盛装而来,那么这本书则可谓衣着平朴,淡淡的黄色封面,毫无慑人心魄之感。而题目“相助”又是不是能一...
第一本完整读完的原版书。虽然之前看过电影,还是被故事的细节深深的吸引了。是近几年来读过的最好的小说,没有之一。生活的琐碎很多时候让我们通过太表象的东西去判断别人,肤色,民族,地域,家室,穿着。这些故事不断地提醒我,应该去静下心来,多去了解,人和人之前的区别,其实比我们想象的小很多。
评分写的很好..就是人物跳来跳去的有点乱- -
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评分不知道现在的时代还有种族歧视么 应该有的吧 倒是奥巴马都是美国总统了呢
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