Name: The Calamity Club: A Novel
Price: 586.00 ZAR
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Author: Kathryn Stockett
ISBN: 9781954118812

Type

Physical Book

Author

Kathryn Stockett

Publisher

Spiegel & Grau

Year

2026

Language

English

Pages

640

Format

dura

Dimensions

6 x 2 x 9

ISBN13

9781954118812

The Calamity Club: A Novel

Kathryn Stockett (Author) · Spiegel & Grau · dura

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Synopsis "The Calamity Club: A Novel"

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?

Kathryn Stockett

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Kathryn Stockett es una escritora estadounidense nacida y criada en Jackson, Mississippi, cuya obra se distingue por su retrato de la vida en el sur de Estados Unidos y por la fuerza de sus personajes femeninos. Tras estudiar Literatura Inglesa y Escritura Creativa en la Universidad de Alabama, trabajó durante varios años en el mundo editorial en Nueva York antes de dedicarse plenamente a la ficción. Alcanzó notoriedad internacional con The Help (2009), una novela que se convirtió en un fenómeno editorial y fue traducida a numerosos idiomas.

Su trayectoria fue reconocida con el Premio Goodreads Choice a la Mejor Ficción y con el Premio SIBA al Libro del Año. En 2026 regresó a la narrativa con The Calamity Club, una extensa novela histórica ambientada en el Mississippi de la Gran Depresión, donde vuelve a explorar temas como la resiliencia, la amistad femenina y las desigualdades sociales. Su estilo combina sensibilidad, humor y una marcada atención al contexto histórico.

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