The Help | Kathryn Stockett

The #1 New York Times bestselling novel and basis for the Academy Award-winning film—a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't.

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read.

In 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, three women from vastly different worlds find courage in each other. Aibileen, a Black maid who has always swallowed her words, finally speaks her truth. Minny, known for her sharp tongue, discovers she must guard dangerous secrets. Skeeter, a white college graduate dismissed as a failure for her ambitions, sees an opportunity to tell a story that matters.

Together, they risk everything to document the hidden lives of Black maids in the Jim Crow South—a tell-all that could transform their fates and shake their small town to its core.