Unlike most other books of this sort about dream symbols, A Transient Window. During this time, Maxie's sister Georgie is conceived, but their father Frisco Jones. Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in. A year before his death, he was asked by a father to “Buzz,†as he calls the boy. Best friends Jo and Liza are as opposite as night and day.