The #1New York Timesbestselling novel and basis for the Academy Award-winning filma timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we dontnominated as one of Americas best-loved novels by PBSsThe Great American Read.

Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, whos always taken orders quietly, but lately shes unable to hold her bitterness back. Her friend Minny has never held her tongue but now must somehow keep secrets about her employer that leave her speechless. White socialite Skeeter just graduated college. Shes full of ambition, but without a husband, shes considered a failure.

Together, these seemingly different women join together to write a tell-all book about work as a black maid in the South, that could forever alter their destinies and the life of a small town…