In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed.
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....
She\'s full of ambition, but without a husband, she\'s considered a failure.
White socialite Skeeter just graduated college.
Her friend Minny has never held her tongue but now must somehow keep secrets about her employer that leave her speechless.
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.
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--n ominated as one of America\'s best-loved novels by PBS\'s The Great American Read .
With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another.
In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed
