The Help

By: Kathryn Stockett

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Jenna Lamia, Octavia Spencer, Bahni Turpin

The #1 New York Times bestselling novel and basis for the Academy Award–winning film.

Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who's always taken orders quietly, but lately she's 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. She's full of ambition, but without a husband, she's 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.

Critic reviews

Praise for The Help

“The two principal maid characters...leap off the page in all their warm, three dimensional glory...[A] winning novel.”—The New York Times

“This could be one of the most important pieces of fiction since To Kill a Mockingbird…If you read only one book...let this be it.”—NPR.org

“Wise, poignant...You’ll catch yourself cheering out loud.”—People

“Graceful and real, a compulsively readable story.”—Entertainment Weekly

“A beautiful portrait of a fragmenting world.”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“The must-read choice of every book club in the country.”—The Huffington Post

“At turns hilarious and heart-warming.”—Associated Press

“In a page-turner that brings new resonance to the moral issues involved, Stockett spins a story of a social awakening as seen from both sides of the American racial divide.”—The Washington Post

Marvelous

Just an amazibg book. So sad, real, emocional, funny and hope. All at once.

More help than I knew I needed

I have enjoyed this audiobook. Right when I thought I was all tears and heartbreak it left me feeling anew and wanting more. It’s worth the time.

Love It!

Great story! Love the readers! They did a phenomenal job with each side of the character's story. Just Loved it!🥰

To Be Listened to 10,000 Times Because

"Jackson ain't no special place. They's 10,000 towns just like it."

This novel chronicles the beauty and exquisitely painful stupidity of human beings in the United States regarding race. I've read and listened to hundreds (thousands?) of novels in my lifetime, from Stephen King and Terry Pratchett and Stieg Larsson and Harper Lee and Dostoevsky and Bronte and Alcott, and Homer and more. I don't know that I will ever encounter a novel as moving, triumphant, poignant, and revealing as this one again.

Amazing. Simply amazing.

Beautifully Written - Beautifully Read

Five star all the way and I don't issue them easily. I was in grade school during this time and this book captures the period with honesty. It is poignant in it's unblinking look at the ugliness, bravery and beauty of this rocky revolutionary time in deep Southern culture. I will miss all the characters who were so vividly brought to life by the author.