The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett (Kindle)

From the Multimillion-Copy Bestselling Author of The Help — A Bold, Bighearted, and Riotously Funny Novel of Unbreakable Women

Kathryn Stockett returns with The Calamity Club, her triumphant second novel — an immersive, heartwarming, and hell-raising story of resilience, friendship, and the power of women taking control in 1933 Mississippi.

Abandoned by her mother one Christmas Eve, eleven-year-old Meg Lefleur has learned to rely on no one. Now one of the “unadoptable big girls” at the Lafayette County Orphan Asylum, she fights every day to keep her spirit unbowed against cruelty and indifference.

Meanwhile, outspoken Birdie Calhoun arrives in Oxford seeking help from her socialite sister — only to discover that her sister’s seemingly charmed life is built on lies. As the Great Depression tightens its grip, Birdie crosses paths with Charlie, a woman with nothing left to lose.

When their fates collide with Meg’s, the three women hatch an audacious plan to claim what’s rightfully theirs. In a world of hypocrisy and fragile freedoms for women, even the smallest act of defiance can spark dangerous — and life-changing — consequences.

Bold, hilarious, heartbreaking, and deeply hopeful, The Calamity Club is an unforgettable testament to underestimated women who turn calamity into the spark of new beginnings.