The Handmaid's Tale by Catherine Stockett

1960s, Mississippi, USA. Aibileen has worked all her life as a servant for white people, raising seventeen of their children, but losing her only son. Minnie is an irrepressible and uncontrollable woman who is not worth arguing with. Due to her difficult character, she is forced to change owners often, but she can still find work: her cakes and pies are incomparable. Skeeter, a white girl, returns to her native Jackson after graduating from university. She dreams of a writing career and wants to tell the world about what is happening here, in the American South.