"The Help" is the phenomenal international bestseller (that inspired the Oscar n
ominated film) by Kathryn Stockett. Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson,
Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted no
t to steal the silver...There's Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child an
d nursing the hurt caused by her own son's tragic death; Minny, whose cooking is
nearly as sassy as her tongue; and white Miss Skeeter, home from College, who w
ants to know why her beloved maid has disappeared.