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Thank you We sneak in Bestsellers The health I'll ashman

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What is the help about on what makes it a

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best seller The help is set in jackson mississippi in

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the nineteen sixties So that's kind of the beginning of

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what we think of as the civil rights era it's

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the story of two black maids who work for kind

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of wealthy white society women So it's also a story

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of a white woman named skeeter who decides to become

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a journalist so that she can let people know about

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what these black maids are like and what their lives

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are like This is a really classic example of historical

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fiction It takes readers back to a time that they

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might not know how to imagine Or they might imagine

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it as kind of idealistic We like to think of

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the mid century as a time when people wore really

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clothes and they had cool advertising or there's cool music

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and cool cars But this is a story about life

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in the south and how complicated it was for everyone

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