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.
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...
評分 評分在去上海的飞机上,在落地后从虹桥机场前往陆家嘴的地铁里,在check in之后气氛古怪的酒店房间内,仅仅一天之间,我看完了这一本《相助》。 随之而来繁忙的工作令我无暇写一篇短评。在上海呆了七天七夜之后,回到北京我觉得是那样的畅然,随即看起了《龙眠》。有一阵子我在考...
評分“文化从来不是流水线能够打造出来的,文化要靠时间和心灵悉心酿造,是一代代人共同的精神成果,是自然积淀而成。”冯骥才先生的说法在一本美国人的小说中得到了印证,这就是美国作家凯瑟琳 斯多科特的《相助》,书中用一条爱的主线对那个种族歧视年代的人性做了鞭辟入里的分析...
評分终于读完了《相助》的电子版,在这之前我从来没有耐心在电脑上读一本书超过10页,可是,这本书让我等不及购买,我想我不能容忍那种等待。 最近我在给孩子读法布尔的《昆虫记》,里面各种各样的昆虫让孩子感到新奇,每次在介绍一个新的昆虫之前,儿子都会问我:“妈妈...
易讀,除瞭對aibileen和minny部分語言錶述剛開始不太習慣。Hilly真的是令人惡心的女人形象,而且感覺這種人還挺多。
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评分獲得經曆很偶然 讀的曆程也奇葩 高三一年斷斷續續 好歹是看完物歸原主瞭 這書也去過不少地方--
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