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The Help
Novel by Kathryn Stockett
This article is about the novel. For other uses, see The Help (disambiguation).
The Help is a historical fiction novel by American author Kathryn Stockett published by Penguin Books in The story is about African Americans working in white households in Jackson, Mississippi, during the early s.
A USA Today article called it one of the "summer sleeper hits".[1] An early review in The New York Times notes Stockett's "affection and intimacy buried beneath even the most seemingly impersonal household connections", and says the book is a "button-pushing, soon to be wildly popular novel".[2]The Atlanta Journal-Constitution said of the book: "This heartbreaking story is a stunning début from a gifted talent."[3]
Stockett began writing the novel — her first — after the September 11 attacks.[4] It took her five years to complete and was rejected by 60 literary agents, over a period of three years,[