The HelpThe book that has taken the US and UK by storm. Enter a vanished and unjust world Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver There's Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her own son's tragic death; Minny, whose cooking is nearly as sassy as her tongue; and white Miss Skeeter, home from College, who wants to know why her beloved maid has