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ISBN: 0425232204

EAN: 9780425232200

Category: Fiction / Historical/Fiction / African American / General/

Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

Release Date: 04/02/2011

Age Range: 18-UP

Synopsis: Watch a video Visit www.penguin.comfor the latest news, tour information and more. Listen to an excerpt from the audiobook. The wildly popular New York Timesbestseller and reading group favorite 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...

Awards: Book Sense Book of the Year – null  Audie Award – null  Indies Choice Book Award – null  Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance Book Awards – null 

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Illustrated: No

Format: UK-B Format Paperback

Height: 1.25 inches

Width: 5.0 inches

Length: 8.25 inches

Weight: 14.67 oz

Pages: 528