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.
如何表达这种阅读的幸运,在地铁里,等车的时候,我没有在这样的时段如此看一本书。因为通常阅读会有一个进入状态的过程,或长或短,有时候到了最后一页,那种触动人心的瞬间才会出现,惟有这本书,让我在任何时候翻开它就立马能找到感觉。我想这也是让我有在这个时候就...
评分文/严杰夫 回顾上个世纪60年代的美国,对于我们这些“第三只眼”来说,可能会产生如下疑问:19世纪60年代经过南北战争后,黑人奴隶不是已经得到解放了么,但在100年后的20世纪60年代,美国却仍然存在着严重的种族问题。显然,被玛格丽特·米切尔感动过的我们,对美国种族问...
评分如何表达这种阅读的幸运,在地铁里,等车的时候,我没有在这样的时段如此看一本书。因为通常阅读会有一个进入状态的过程,或长或短,有时候到了最后一页,那种触动人心的瞬间才会出现,惟有这本书,让我在任何时候翻开它就立马能找到感觉。我想这也是让我有在这个时候就...
评分It's been a long time since I was so addicted to a novel, but this one left me empty, or even a kind of loss when I finally finished it. The review says it's stunning or whatever, which is true indeed, but for me the word really should be breath-taking. W...
评分1960年,美国密西西比州首府杰克逊市,三位女性口述她们的日常生活,两位黑人女佣,一位白人小姐。即使站在今天回望,这个女声三重唱的组合也不同寻常。 密西西比河水滔滔流淌,“老人河”低沉哀伤的歌声,诉说着几个世纪以来黑色人种在这片丰饶土地上遭受的不幸。根深蒂固的种...
人生第一本英文书,值了。
评分Sista, there's still courage n' love .
评分写作能改变世界么
评分AJ推荐给我的,从2016读到了2017。读完的时候,无比欢愉。
评分花了快一个星期断断续续读完了。作者的文字很有力量。看到最后我知道了,很大程度上她是在写自己的故事,所以感情那么真挚。11年的时候看了电影,那时候被黑人遇袭,aibileen被司机赶下车在黑暗中恐惧地回家那一段吓到不行,不是因为恐怖,而是我能感觉到一部分她的恐惧,在一个不由自己主宰的世界生存,甚至不能确保自己的安全。那时候我觉得人性很可怕,那段历史很可怕。我们瞥到的只是一角,而真正的历史呢?我应该没有勇气面对。
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