TY - BOOK AU - Stockett,Kathryn TI - The help SN - 9780399155345 (trade) AV - PS3619.T636 H45 2009 U1 - 813/.6[Fic] 22 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Amy Einhorn Books/G.P. Putnam's Sons KW - Civil rights movements KW - Fiction KW - African American women KW - sears KW - Historical fiction KW - Jackson (Miss.) KW - gsafd N1 - Library Journal Starred; Pub Weekly; Adult; Follett Library Resources; Adult N2 - Skeeter returns home to Mississippi from college in 1962 and begins to write stories about the African-American women that are found working in white households, which includes Aibileen, who grieves for the loss of her son while caring for her seventeenth white child, and Minny, Aibileen's sassy friend, the hired cook for a secretive woman who is new to town ER -