The Help - Kathryn Stockett 
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 "Do you ever wish you could... change things?" [Skeeter] asks. 
 Chapter 1 (Aibeleen) 
 (view spoiler)[An ambitious young writer Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan and two maids Aibeleen Clark and Minny Jackson - who all lived and worked in the segregated town of Jackson, Mississippi in the early 1960s - get together to write a book about the relationships between black maids and the white families they serve, even if writing that book was illegal at the time. The book caused a lot of turmoil in town as people are trying to work out who's who. (hide spoiler)] 
 The novel is told from the perspectives of our three main characters, Skeeter, Aibeleen and Minny, who each has her own voice. I loved Aibeleen and Minny's friendship as well as Minny's relationship with Celia, but my favourite part was the (somewhat unexpected) positive reaction of the white ladies after they read about their maids. Another great moment was when Aibeleen realized how Minny was protecting everyone at her own risk by sharing the Terrible Awful Thing. 
 "Yes ma'am. I tell her." In about a hundred years. 
 Chapter 24 (Minny) 
 About the movie: 
 While remaining mostly truthful to the novel, the movie makes one big change about Constantine's daughter, who in the book was born white (Constantine's father having been a white man, it sometimes happened). The result of her visit to Constantine during a reception hosted by Mrs Phelan is still the same, but Skeeter learns the details from a letter written by Aibeleen.