The Help (2009) 相助

                
                
1962年的密西西比，距离奥巴马当选总统还有47个年头。白人男子至高无上，女人是漂亮的摆设，有色人种则是不可接触却又不得不接触的贱民。种族冲突此起彼伏，两个女佣，一个大学刚毕业、涉世未深的小姐，冒险开始她们的变革之路。爱与痛苦，仇恨与信仰，恐惧与勇气，交集在三十万字的分量里，密密麻麻浸润心灵。
作者以细腻真实的笔触重现了60年代美国南部的种族关系，刻画了艾碧莲、明尼、雯三个人物形象，大时代的激流教小人物只能学会隐忍，但当变革的声音从喉咙里发出，饱满而又真挚的感情喷薄而出，谁又能说，这股直抵人心的力量不能给他们的命运带来救赎？
本书出版之后，版权被三十多国争先引进，《纽约时报》、《出版者周刊》、《华盛顿邮报》联合推荐 并连续报导，堪称近年来不可多见的力作。
作者凯瑟琳·斯多克特（Kathryn Stockett）生长在密西西比州的首府杰克逊（Jackson），在阿拉巴马大学获得英语与创造性写作学位，毕业后移居纽约，从事杂志出版与行销工作9年。本书是她的第一本小说。
2011年同名改编影片由作者的童年好友执导，获84届奥斯卡多项提名，斩获最佳女配角奖。
                
                
Be prepared to meet three unforgettable women.
The Help is set in the early 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi, and told primarily from the first-person perspectives of three women: Aibileen, Minny, and Skeeter.
Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.
Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.
Minny, Aibileen’s best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody’s business, but she can’t mind her tongue, so she’s lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.
Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.
In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women— mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends—view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t.
朗读：Jenna Lamia, Bahni Turpin, Octavia Spencer, Cassandra Campbell
多女声分角色朗读，美音，多是黑人口音，也有白人口音，演绎皆生动、清楚，其中黑人口音像在唱rap。朗读者Octavia Spencer系书中人物Minny的原型，她也是影片角色Minny的扮演者，并凭此勇夺奥斯卡最佳女配角。
                
                
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