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.
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评分It's been a long time since I was so addicted to a novel, but this one left me empty, or even a kind of loss when I finally finished it. The review says it's stunning or whatever, which is true indeed, but for me the word really should be breath-taking. W...
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...
评分收到书友寄来《相助》的时候,正在整理以前的旧杂志翻看一些当时折角批注的读后感,所以打开这本书开始阅读的时候,仅仅一个开篇就让我觉得似乎巧合的好笑。 根据以往所知的有限历史知识,我们都以为没有被2次世界大战波及的美国,又是第三次科技革命的绝对受益者,上个世纪60...
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...
很快四天看完,还是很不错的故事,也的确是有一些畅销的元素。而且喜欢她写的不做作。只是觉得写的功力不够,不过是处女作,也不简单了。
评分''Once upon a day there's an alien called Martian Luther King, people were mean to him because his skin colour's green. ''
评分身临其境的心路叙述。最后的几章很感人。
评分很久没有读过这样全篇酸爽的小说了。矛盾冲突多样,人物形象丰满,近几年读的小说中很少有如此赞的。电影改编不尽如人意,建议读原著,你会明白我在说什么。貌似上海译文出版社有中文版。
评分很快四天看完,还是很不错的故事,也的确是有一些畅销的元素。而且喜欢她写的不做作。只是觉得写的功力不够,不过是处女作,也不简单了。
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