The Calamity Club A Novel

Kathryn Stockett

eBook - 2026

The multimillion-copy-selling author of The Help returns with a bold, big-hearted novel about a group of unbreakable women, fighting for what's rightfully theirs—and the power of friendship to change everything."A must-read."—Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in ChemistryOxford, Mississippi, 1933.Abandoned by her mother one Christmas Eve, eleven-year-old Meg Lefleur has learned the hard way to rely on no one. Now one of the unadoptable "big girls" at the Lafayette County Orphan Asylum, she fights each day to keep her spirit unbowed.Birdie Calhoun, unmarried and outspoken, has come to Oxford to ask her socialite sister to help the struggling family she's left behind. But as the Depression tightens its grip, B...irdie discovers her sister's seemingly charmed life is a tapestry of lies.Then, Birdie encounters Charlie, a woman running low on luck with little left to lose. When their fates—and... more