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Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. 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…

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Editions

59 editions · 12 languages
  • Paperback · English · 2012
    Fig Tree · 464 pages · 9780241146200
  • Ebook · English · 2011
    Berkley Books · 9781440697661
  • Paperback · English · 2011
    Berkley Books · 9780425232200
  • Paperback · English · 2011
    The Help. Movie Tie-In
    Berkley Trade · 9780425244296
  • Hardcover · English · 2009
    Amy Einhorn Books · 451 pages · 9780399155345
  • Audiobook · English · 2009
    Books on Tape · 9781415961261
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