Skeeter gets a job at the local paper writing the household chores column but she has never cleaned or fixed anything, so she enlists the help of her friend Elizabeth's maid Aibileen, and from this small beginning Skeeter begins to learn what the life of a black domestic is like in Jackson in, and it's not pretty. She was in a sorority and is now a Junior Leaguer but her heart isn't in it.
She is a little different from her buddies.
Skeeter Phelan graduates from Ole Miss without having landed a husband and returns home to Jackson. It is, and the pun is fully intended, a domestic drama. Unlike much of the rest of the best-seller list, The Help is not about lawyers, vampires or lost notebooks or lost dogs, CIA operatives or murder, space aliens, Opus Dei, tough times in Arabia or historical queens of any kind. The book was released on Februand was on the NYT best seller list in the last week in March, and it deserves to be. The advance praise from other authors and most importantly from independent bookstore owners was huge. The Help was identified as a winner, prenatally, so to speak, by the literary industry's version of the sonogram.
This is her first novel and it is a marvel, a great read, engrossing and fast-paced. Kathryn Stockett received a BA in English and creative writing from UA, worked in magazines in NYC for nine years, and now lives in Atlanta.
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