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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评分很久沒有讀過這樣全篇酸爽的小說瞭。矛盾衝突多樣,人物形象豐滿,近幾年讀的小說中很少有如此贊的。電影改編不盡如人意,建議讀原著,你會明白我在說什麼。貌似上海譯文齣版社有中文版。
评分很快四天看完,還是很不錯的故事,也的確是有一些暢銷的元素。而且喜歡她寫的不做作。隻是覺得寫的功力不夠,不過是處女作,也不簡單瞭。
评分很久沒有讀過這樣全篇酸爽的小說瞭。矛盾衝突多樣,人物形象豐滿,近幾年讀的小說中很少有如此贊的。電影改編不盡如人意,建議讀原著,你會明白我在說什麼。貌似上海譯文齣版社有中文版。
评分很久沒有讀過這樣全篇酸爽的小說瞭。矛盾衝突多樣,人物形象豐滿,近幾年讀的小說中很少有如此贊的。電影改編不盡如人意,建議讀原著,你會明白我在說什麼。貌似上海譯文齣版社有中文版。
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