The 2018 Reading Challenge - #41 - A Bestseller from the Year you graduated High School

Hello everyone :)
Hope you all are doing very well today!
For this weeks book and category, a Bestseller from the Year you graduated High School, which has been 2011, I read:

The Help
by Kathryn Stockett

The Help is a 2009 novel by American author Kathryn Stockett.

The story is about African Americans working in white households in Jackson, Mississippi, during the early 1960s. A USA Today article called it one of the "summer sleeper hits".

An early review in The New York Times notes Stockett's "affection and intimacy buried beneath even the most seemingly impersonal household connections" and says the book is a "button-pushing, soon to be wildly popular novel". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution said of the book: "This heartbreaking story is a stunning début from a gifted talent."

Stockett began writing the novel — her first — after the September 11th attacks. It took her five years to complete and was rejected by 60 literary agents, over a period of three years, before agent Susan Ramer agreed to represent Stockett. The Help has since been published in 35 countries and three languages.

As of August 2011, it had sold seven million copies in print and audiobook editions, and spent more than 100 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list. [...] ¹

Again a little summary from goodreads:

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"Be prepared to meet three unforgettable women:
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 be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one 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 of her 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 different from one 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."

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I´ll give it a 7 out of 10

I liked this book but I also don´t know if I would choose this one again.
A lot about this book, its story and stile of writing is amazing and I can´t really put a finder on it what it was that made me not just love it ;) Which makes saying more about it quite hard ;)
I liked it but its not at the top of my faves ^^
Also not to easy to read it in English when you´re not a native English speaker just due to the accent often written like it would be said - but I made it through and you kind of get used to it ^^

Here is a list of all the The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers of 2011 and a list of them all years since 1931 and Lists of The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Sellers

Wich year did you graduate Highschool and which book did you choose for this category?

Did you read The Help and did you like the book or the movie more?
I haven´t seen the movie yet, is it worth a watch?

With lots of love

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