P RAISE FOR

THE HELP

“[Stockett’s] pitch-perfect depiction of a country’s gradual path toward integration will pull readers into a compelling story that doubles as a portrait of a country struggling with racial issues.”

— USA Today

“A nuanced variation on the theme that strikes every note with authenticity. In a page-turner that brings new resonance to the moral issues involved, [Stockett] spins a story of social awakening as seen from both sides of the American racial divide.”

— The Washington Post

“In The Help , Kathryn Stockett’s button-pushing, soon-to-be wildly popular novel . . . the two principal maid characters . . . leap off the page in all their warm, three-dimensional glory. Book groups armed with hankies will talk and talk.”

— The New York Times

“Graceful and real, a compulsively readable story.”

— Entertainment Weekly

“[A] story with heart and hope . . . A good old-fashioned novel.”

— New York Daily News

“Powerful . . . [Stockett’s] attention to historical detail, dialect, and characterization creates a beautiful portrait of a fragmenting world.”

— The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“A magical novel. Heartbreaking and oh so true, the voices of these characters, their lives and struggles, will stay with you long after you reluctantly come to the end.”

—Robert Hicks, New York Times bestselling author of The Widow of the South

“Lush, original, and poignant . . . a wondrous novel set in the Deep South told through the authentic voices of Aibileen, Minny, and Skeeter, three unforgettable women whose lives and points of view intersect vividly against a landscape of hopeful change in America. You will be swept away as they work, play, and love during a time when possibilities for women were few but their dreams of the future were limitless. A glorious read.”

—Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of the Big Stone Gap series and Very Valentine

“Set in the rural South of the 1960s, The Help is a startling, resonant portrait of the intertwined lives of women on opposite sides of the racial divide. Stockett’s many gifts—a keen eye for character, a wicked sense of humor, the perfect timing of a natural-born storyteller—shine as she evokes a time and place when black women were expected to help raise white babies, and yet could not use the same bathroom as their employers. Her characters, both white and black, are so fully fleshed they practically breathe—no stock villains or pious heroines here. I’m becoming an evangelist for The Help . Don’t miss this wise and astonishing debut.”

—Joshilyn Jackson, bestselling author of Gods in Alabama

“A wonderful book. A compelling and comically poignant tale about three women, and a time and a place that are in many ways very much still with us.”

—Beth Henley, Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright of Crimes of the Heart

“I love The Help . Kathryn Stockett has given us glorious characters and a powerful, truth-filled story. Aibileen, Minny, and Skeeter show that people from this troubled time came together despite their differences, and that ordinary women can be heroic.”

—Jill Conner Browne, #1 New York Time s bestselling author of the Sweet Potato Queens series and resident of Jackson, Mississippi