New Releases by Kathryn Stockett

«El libro del que habla todo el mundo, una novela ganadora.» The New York Times «Una declaración emotiva, profunda y reivindicativa.» Qué Leer (Versión para México y Centroamérica) Tras terminar sus estudios, la joven Skeeter vuelve a su casa en la muy conservadora ciudad de Jackson, Misisipi. Estamos en 1962 y se supone que su máximo objetivo debe ser el de buscarse un marido, pero Skeeter sueña con una vida diferente, entregada a la literatura. Aibeleen, como la mayoría de las mujeres negras de la ciudad se dedica a servir en las casas de los ricos. Su mejor amiga es Minny, una gran cocinera, cuyo fuerte carácter le ha valido la enemistad de las ricas mujeres blancas de la ciudad. Estas tres mujeres, ahogadas por una sociedad puritana y racista, unirán sus esfuerzos para llevar a cabo un proyecto clandestino y liberador.

The #1 New York Times bestselling novel and basis for the Academy Award-winning film—a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who’s always taken orders quietly, but lately she’s unable to hold her bitterness back. Her friend Minny has never held her tongue but now must somehow keep secrets about her employer that leave her speechless. White socialite Skeeter just graduated college. She’s full of ambition, but without a husband, she’s considered a failure. Together, these seemingly different women join together to write a tell-all book about work as a black maid in the South, that could forever alter their destinies and the life of a small town...

Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. Aibileen is a wise, regal black maid raising her seventeenth white child. Minny, Aibileen''s best friend, can cook like nobody''s business but can''t mind her tongue. It is 1962, and these three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step that forever changes a town and the way women --mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends -- view one another"