I absolutely loved this book! Dare I say, it could possibly be the best book I will read this year? I laughed, I gasped, and I just about cried towards the end along with all the different characters. 
 Stockett does a wonderful creating dynamic characters that you feel like you can actually relate to, understand what they have gone through, and (some of them) like you can hate as much as characters in the book do. 
 Aibileen Clark is a black maid, in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, raising her seventeenth white child. She's always taken orders quietly, but lately it leaves her with a bitterness she can no longer bite back. Her friend Minny Jackson has certainly never held her tongue, or held on to a job for very long, but now she's working for a newcomer with secrets that leave her speechless. And white socialite Skeeter Phelan has just returned from college with ambition and a degree but, to her mother's lament, no husband. Normally Skeeter would find solace in Constantine, the beloved maid who raised her, but Constantine has inexplicably disappeared. 
 Together, these seemingly different women join to work on a project that could forever alter their destinies and the life of a small town - to write, in secret, a tell-all book about what it's really like to work as a black maid in the while homes of the South. Despite the terrible risks they will have to take, and the sometimes humorous boundaries they will have the cross, these three women unite with one intention: hope for a better day.