The Help

About The Help

The Help (2009) by Kathryn Stockett is a novel set in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, told through three alternating voices — a young white woman who wants to be a writer, and two Black domestic workers — who collaborate on a book about what it is like to work as a maid in the Jim Crow South. A publishing phenomenon that generated significant critical conversation about race, perspective, and who tells whose story.