The help - kathryn stockett

In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed.

With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another.

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 dont--n ominated as one of Americas best-loved novels by PBSs The Great American Read .

Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, whos always taken orders quietly, but lately shes unable to hold her bitterness back.

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.

Shes full of ambition, but without a husband, shes 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.