Rosebud Bookshop - Contemporary Fiction Book Club

Rosebud Bookshop - Contemporary Fiction Book Club - The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett

Join Florentine to discuss The Calamity Club!

You give a girl a taste of fresh air and then you take it away she ll grow fierce and wild to get it back.

Oxford, Mississippi, 1933. Eleven-year-old Meg Lefleur has learned the hard way to rely on no one. Ever since her beloved mother failed to come home last Christmas Eve, she s been one of the 'unadoptable' girls at the town's orphanage, where she fights each day to keep her wits sharp and her spirit unbowed.

When she meets Birdie, a young woman who has come to Oxford determined to remind her socialite sister of the impoverished family she left behind, for the first time in a long while it seems someone else might care about Meg's future.

But as the Depression tightens its grip, Birdie begins to suspect her sister's charmed life may be founded on a tapestry of lies. Then, Birdie encounters Charlie, a woman haunted by loss who has been pushed to the brink with nothing left to lose.

Drawn together by circumstance, they find unexpected kinship among a disreputable, determined band of women.

Moderator: Florentine

This is an in person event taking place at R. de Cedofeita, 634.

Read in your preferred language. Discussion in English

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Snacks and drinks will be provided.