It took her five years to complete and was rejected by 60 literary agents, over a period of three years, before agent Susan Ramer agreed to represent Stockett. Stockett began writing the novel - her first - after the September 11th attacks. The story is about African Americans working in white households in Jackson, Mississippi, during the early 1960s.Ī USA Today article called it one of the "summer sleeper hits." An early review in The New York Times notes Stockett's "affection and intimacy buried beneath even the most seemingly impersonal household connections," and says the book is a "button-pushing, soon to be wildly popular novel." The Atlanta Journal-Constitution said of the book: "This heartbreaking story is a stunning début from a gifted talent." The Help is a historical fiction novel by American author Kathryn Stockett and published by Penguin Books in 2009.
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