Enter A Vanished And Unjust World: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where Black Maids Raise White Children, But Aren't Trusted Not To Steal The Silver . . .There's Aibileen, Raising Her Seventeenth White Child And Nursing The Hurt Caused By Her Own Son's Tragic Death Minny, Whose Cooking Is Nearly As Sassy As Her Tongue And White Miss Skeeter, Home From College, Who Wants To Know Why Her Beloved Maid Has Disappeared.