Wishful Wednesday #4

Title: The Help

Author: Kathryn Stockett

Publisher: Amy Einhorn Books

Published: February 2009

Pages: 451p

GR's Rating: 4.44/5

Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. 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 happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her belovedmaid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and noone 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 ofher 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 diferent fromone 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.

*****

Siapa sih yang nggak kenal buku ini? Filmnya pun sudah release tahun 2011. Sebenarnya sudah beberapa kali melirik buku ini untuk dijadikan WW, tapi kali ini ada alasan lain yang HARUS masukin buku ini ke WW. Alasan itu adalah....kakak sepupuku perlu The Help buat bahan skripsinya :)) Yah, hitung-hitung kenapa nggak ngebantu sesama? Toh aku juga memang pengen beli. Dari yang diceritain kakakku berdasarkan filmnya yang sudah dia tonton, ceritanya bagus banget. Aku bingung mau beli yang ini atau yang movie-tie in. Semoga habis lebaran bisa segera beli, biar si kakak juga segera baca dan skripsinya lancar.

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4. Buat postingan mengenai buku-buku (boleh lebih dari satu) yang jadi inceran kalian minggu ini, mulai dari yang bakal segera dibeli, sampai yang paling mustahil dan hanya sebatas mimpi. Oya, sertakan juga alasan kenapa buku itu masuk dalam wishlist kalian ya!