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Jennifer

Audible Newbie! But lovin' it! What a Godsend! I now have the time (and desire) to read a good book!

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  • The Help | [Kathryn Stockett]
    The Help
    UNABRIDGED

    The Help

    • UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 19 mins)
    • By Kathryn Stockett
    • Narrated By Jenna Lamia, Bahni Turpin, Octavia Spencer, and others
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
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    (24209)
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    (10941)

    Why we think it’s a great listen: The most celebrated performance in all of Audible’s history, The Help has nearly 2,000 5-star reviews from your fellow listeners. We hear the print book’s not bad, either. 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.

    Jan says: "What a great surprise!"
    "Soul Stirring Story of Overcoming Oppression!"
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    What did you love best about The Help?

    This was an excellent story of struggle, strength and ultimate success. Although classified as fiction, it depicts real life stories of what individuals faced (and are still facing to some degree) in everyday life in the south back in the 60's. But the best part is how creatively the characters are depicted as they worked together to overcome the oppression they had grown accustom to, but longed (and worked even harder) to escape.


    Which character – as performed by the narrators – was your favorite?

    Favorite Character - Minnie...so real, so complex, so...Minnie


    If you could take any character from The Help out to dinner, who would it be and why?

    If I could take one of the characters from the book out to dinner, it would be Abeline...she was such a woman of quiet strength and dignity...even in the face of Oppression...aka Hilly Hollbrook.

    Abeline is the type of woman from whom you could learn valuable life lessons, just by sitting across the table from her having


    Any additional comments?

    My first Audible read...I'm hooked!

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