a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who recently returned home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. In Jackson, Mississippi, life revolves around "the help," although they are always kept apart by racial lines. These three stories explain this.
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a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who recently returned home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. In Jackson, Mississippi, life revolves around "the help," although they are always kept apart by racial lines. These three stories explain this.
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