Kathryn Stockett + Ellen Daniels
Schedule
Wed, 06 May, 2026 at 04:30 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Eudora Welty House & Garden | Jackson, MS
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Join us for an event with Kathryn Stockett in conversation with Mississippi Book Festival Executive Director Ellen Daniels for her book THE CALAMITY CLUB at the Eudora Welty House and Garden!Link to RSVP: https://invite.social/eorf9vpy2hgel9q3
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Order your signed copy here: https://www.lemuriabooks.com/The-Calamity-Club-Kathryn-Stockett-p/9781954118812.htm
More about the book:
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.
In 1933 Oxford, Mississippi, Prohibition is on the wane, and the Great Depression is tightening its grip. Poor and rich folks alike have fallen on hard times, even as the old social order remains. For women on the margins, the options are few and the price of dignity and self-determination is unbearably high.
Eleven-year-old Meg, one of the unadoptable “big girls” at the Lafayette County Orphan Asylum, fights each day to keep her spirit unbowed. Birdie, unmarried and outspoken, has come to Oxford on a mission to ask her social-climbing sister to help the struggling family she’s left behind. And Charlie is a woman with a past, running low on luck but driven by fire, fury, and grit. When their fates converge, they come up with an audacious plan to take back control of their lives. Together, they form an unlikely sisterhood—but in a place and time where hypocrisy is rife, women’s freedom is fragile, and making an enemy can have dire consequences, will the price they pay for their outrageous risk-taking be too high?
The Calamity Club will make you laugh, cry, and cheer—an epic testament to resilience, friendship, and the fierce, funny women who know that calamity can be the spark of new beginnings. This is Kathryn Stockett at her most confident, heartfelt, and hilarious—the triumphant return of one of the most beloved storytellers of our time.
Kathryn Stockett was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. She lives in New York City and Mississippi.
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