Name: Help the
SKU: 4635652
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Author: Kathryn Stockett

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Physical Book

Author

Kathryn Stockett

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Penguin Pg

Synopsis "Help the "

Three ordinary women are one extraordinary step… Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, raising her seventeenth white child. She's always taken orders quietly, but lately it leaves her with a bitterness she can no longer bite back. Her friend Minny has certainly never held her tongue, or held on to a job for very long, but now she's working for a newcomer with secrets that leave her speechless. And white socialite Skeeter has just returned from college with ambition and a degree but, to her mother's lament, no husband. Normally Skeeter would find solace in Constantine, the beloved maid who raised her, but Constantine has inexplicably disappeared. Together, these seemingly different women join to work on a project that could forever alter their destinies and the life of a small town—to write, in secret, a tell-all book about what it's really like to work as a black maid in the white homes of the South. Despite the terrible risks they will have to take, and the sometimes humorous boundaries they will have to cross, these three women unite with one intention: hope for a better day. "It's the must-read choice of every book club in the country... What is the big attraction? The Help is about something. That is, something real. Something that matters". —The Huffington Post Includes an essay by Kathryn Stockett and a reading group guide "A stunning debut from a gifted talent." —The Atlanta Journal Constitution

Kathryn Stockett

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Kathryn Stockett es una escritora estadounidense nacida y criada en Jackson, Mississippi, cuya obra se distingue por su retrato de la vida en el sur de Estados Unidos y por la fuerza de sus personajes femeninos. Tras estudiar Literatura Inglesa y Escritura Creativa en la Universidad de Alabama, trabajó durante varios años en el mundo editorial en Nueva York antes de dedicarse plenamente a la ficción. Alcanzó notoriedad internacional con The Help (2009), una novela que se convirtió en un fenómeno editorial y fue traducida a numerosos idiomas.

Su trayectoria fue reconocida con el Premio Goodreads Choice a la Mejor Ficción y con el Premio SIBA al Libro del Año. En 2026 regresó a la narrativa con The Calamity Club, una extensa novela histórica ambientada en el Mississippi de la Gran Depresión, donde vuelve a explorar temas como la resiliencia, la amistad femenina y las desigualdades sociales. Su estilo combina sensibilidad, humor y una marcada atención al contexto histórico.

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