Kathryn Stockett was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. After graduating from the University of Alabama with a degree in English and Creative Writing, she moved to New York City where she worked in magazine publishing and marketing for nine years. She currently lives in Atlanta with her husband and daughter. This is her first novel.
Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.
Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.
Minny, Aibileen’s best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody’s business, but she can’t mind her tongue, so she’s lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.
Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.
In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women—mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends—view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t.
你喜欢一本书,很多时候是因为写的是你的日常生活,这个时候,这本书就是你解决问题发泄情感的一本手册。但另一些时候,也可能是因为这本书正好跟你的频率节奏一致,产生了共鸣。比方说《相助》就是这样的一本书。 种族问题在当代的中国很少成为问题,但这不代表这本书你看不到...
评分不论是谁,曾经都有段时间,活在这样的一个世界里:渴望被理解却对他人充满了无形的抗拒。也许是在你的青春期,也许是你在独自谋生后的偶然低潮,也许是在社会这个熔炉里无形产生的界限,也许在更多只有你自己体味得到的时刻…… 这个时候的你,也许乐于这样的世界,但也不妨...
评分我们中的很大一部分人曾想过自己写一部小说,在一次又一次失败过后,就开始一部接一部地读别人的小说,读越来越厚的小说,仿佛心甘情愿被陌生的故事榨干自己的时间。 我们的愿望只剩下可怜巴巴的一个,希望手里的这个故事被讲的简单动听。 有些人写到八十岁第九十本书时才明白...
评分你喜欢一本书,很多时候是因为写的是你的日常生活,这个时候,这本书就是你解决问题发泄情感的一本手册。但另一些时候,也可能是因为这本书正好跟你的频率节奏一致,产生了共鸣。比方说《相助》就是这样的一本书。 种族问题在当代的中国很少成为问题,但这不代表这本书你看不到...
评分我们中的很大一部分人曾想过自己写一部小说,在一次又一次失败过后,就开始一部接一部地读别人的小说,读越来越厚的小说,仿佛心甘情愿被陌生的故事榨干自己的时间。 我们的愿望只剩下可怜巴巴的一个,希望手里的这个故事被讲的简单动听。 有些人写到八十岁第九十本书时才明白...
写得太好,但不推荐给对美国南部和civil right不感兴趣的人。
评分不敢相信这样的事情发生在只离我们现在40多年前的社会。
评分不敢相信这样的事情发生在只离我们现在40多年前的社会。
评分“This one, this is for the white lady. You tell her we love her, like she’s our own family.”
评分可读性很强的故事;白人化的视角,作者没有站在不同人物身份表述的实力,偏要搞个三线,甚至四五线叙事,尤其aibileen, 太苍白了,黑人视角,特别是黑人女性视角,不仅仅是语言上省音省字就可以刻画好的。可惜了这样的题材。向伟大的女性致敬,书里所有的男性角色都是扁的。
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