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- Themes
- Race and class in the 1960s South, Women’s collaboration
Who it’s for
- For readers interested in Black maids’ lives in the 1960s South
- For readers interested in women joining forces to tell a difficult story
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The #1 New York Times bestselling novel and basis for the Academy Award-winning film—a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.
Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who’s always taken orders quietly, but lately she’s unable to hold her bitterness back.
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Her friend Minny has never held her tongue but now must somehow keep secrets about her employer that leave her speechless. White socialite Skeeter just graduated college. She’s full of ambition, but without a husband, she’s considered a failure.
Together, these seemingly different women join together to write a tell-all book about work as a black maid in the South, that could forever alter their destinies and the life of a small town...
Publisher details
Publisher categories
- Literary Fiction
- Black Historical Fiction
- Small-Town Fiction
- Authors
- Kathryn Stockett
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- February 10, 2009
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Literary Fiction