01414cam a2200325 4500 544106028 TxAuBib 20090923120000.0 090209s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2008030185 9780399155345 hardback 0399155341 hardback 9780425245132 0425245136 MNH TxAuBib Stockett, Kathryn. The help / Stocket, Kathryn. 1st ed. New York : Amy Einhorn Books, 2009. 451 pages ; 24 cm. 544 p. (Movie tie-in trade pbk. ed.) ; ; 21 cm. "Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. Aibileen is a wise, regal black maid raising her seventeenth white child. Minny, Aibileen's best friend, can cook like nobody's business but can't mind her tongue. It is 1962, and these three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step that forever changes a town and the way women --mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends -- view one another"- 20090923. Civil rights movements Fiction. African American women Fiction. Housekeepers Mississippi Fiction. Jackson (Mississippi) Fiction. Historical fiction. TXSTN