A Number One New York Times Bestseller: need I say more?A book that talks about the struggles of being black house maids in the 1960s and the trouble a white woman can get into talking to them.
Skeeter Phelan is tired of the way black house maids are treated in Jackson, Mississippi, and she wants to “change” things. With Aibileen, a God-fearing maid, and Minny, a loud mouth woman who doesn’t take anyone’s crap, Skeeter begins writing a book, and they risk it all to try and make a difference.
But, in a time of turmoil and change, with most people stuck in the way things were, and the people trying to progress being bullied or killed, will writing this book be the beginning of better things or the beginning of tragedy for the maids who helped?