The Calamity Club2 by Kathryn Stockett
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The Calamity Club
- The instant New York Times bestseller from the author of The Help
- By: Kathryn Stockett
- Narrated By: January LaVoy, Jenna Lamia
- Length: 28 hrs and 45 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction
Publisher's Summary
From the author of The Help. “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. But in a town steeped in hypocrisy, even the smallest act of defiance can have dangerous consequences…Bold, heartwarming, and riotously funny, The Calamity Club is an unforgettable story of resilience and friendship, and a sisterhood of underestimated women who risk everything to take back control of their fates.'A rip-roaring adventure of found family, complex sisterhood and tested moral compasses. Stockett is a born storyteller' Sunday Times'Pure hell-raising entertainment' New York Times'Smart, funny, and driven by unforgettable characters ... a must-read' Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in Chemistry© Kathryn Stockett 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026
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Great story and couldn’t stop listening! Didn’t want it to end . The 2 narrators were an amazing !
Amazon Customer
Thank you for this incredible experience. Kathryn Stockett, you are such a gift. Any story that makes you google terms like “Merry Widow” means you’re in to be taught something new. At the end of the book Kathryn says in her author’s note that “as a writer, and a human being, it’s her duty to imagine what it feels like to stand in another person’s shoes” and she has more than successfully done this for her readers. She forced me to stand in the shoes of women, if only for a moment, like Flossy and Charlie, who were out of options and forced into survival. I was touched by Birdie’s kindness and I loved how she showed up for the women in her life.
Thank you to the talented, and perfect narrators of this story. They brought it to life. Well done. Highly, highly recommend.