Arts & Letters Live: Kathryn Stockett

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The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett features a group of unbreakable women in 1933 Mississippi who are fighting to claim what’s rightfully theirs as the Depression tightens its grip.When unmarried and opinionated Birdie Calhoun meets Charlie, a woman with nothing left to lose, their fates—and that of 11-year-old orphan Meg—converge with those of a band of undaunted, disreputable women as they form an audacious plan to take back control of their lives. But in a place and time where hypocrisy is rife, where women’s freedom is fragile, and where making an enemy can have calamitous consequences, will the price they pay for their outrageous risk-taking be too high?Bold, heartwarming, and bracingly funny, The Calamity Club is an unputdownable sto