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The Help
Paperback, 534 pages, Penguin Group USA, List Price: $16 | purchase
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Book Summary
Limited and persecuted by racial divides in 1962 Jackson, Miss., three women — an African-American maid, her sassy and chronically unemployed friend (also a maid) and a recently graduated white woman — team up for a clandestine project.
Awards and Recognition
54 weeks on NPR Paperback Fiction Bestseller List
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- Jackson (Miss.),
- African American women,
- Civil rights movements,
- Fiction
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A Nuanced Novel Of Race In The Deep South
July 1, 2009 Author Kathryn Stockett explores racial tensions in the Deep South from three different perspectives in her novel The Help. Karen Grigsby Bates says if you read one book this summer, this should be it.
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