The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett — the long-awaited second novel from the multimillion-copy-selling author of The Help.
Oxford, Mississippi, 1933. The Great Depression has tightened its grip, and the lives of three unbreakable women are about to collide.
Eleven-year-old Meg Lefleur has been abandoned at the Lafayette County Orphan Asylum. Smart, sharp-tongued, and determined to keep her spirit intact, she has learned the hard way to rely on no one. Birdie Calhoun, unmarried and outspoken, arrives in Oxford hoping her wealthy sister will help save the family farm from foreclosure — only to discover that her sister’s charmed life is built on lies. Then Birdie meets Charlie, a resourceful woman running low on luck with little left to lose.
When their fates converge, the women form an unlikely alliance and set an audacious plan in motion to claim what is rightfully theirs. In a world of poverty, hypocrisy, and constrained freedoms, friendship becomes their greatest weapon.
Seventeen years after The Help captivated readers worldwide, Kathryn Stockett returns with a bold, bighearted novel of economic hardship, moral courage, and the particular yearnings of women who refuse to be broken. Heart-wrenching, often hilarious, and deeply immersive, The Calamity Club is a story of resilience, sisterhood, and the power of women to change everything.
