Stockett, Kathryn.

The help / Kathryn Stockett. - Berkley movie tie-in trade pbk. ed. - New York : Berkley Books, 2011, c2009. - 534 p. ; 21 cm.

Originally published: New York : Amy Einhorn Books, c2009. Includes readers guide.

In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another.

ISBN: 9780425232200 (trade pbk.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Civil rights movements--Fiction.
African American women--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Jackson (Miss.)--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Historical fiction.