The+Help+by+Stockett

//The Help // by Kathryn Stockett / Fiction The novel is told from the perspective of three characters: Aibileen, a middle aged African American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny, an African American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Skeeter, a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi in the early 1960s is built upon a powder keg of discriminatory practices that only needs a spark to bring about explosive change.