The Calamity Club // A Conversation with Kathryn Stockett

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The Calamity Club // A Conversation with Kathryn Stockett

May 17 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Along with Buxton Books, we are excited to welcome Kathryn Stockett, bestselling author of The Help, to the Charleston Music Hall for her long-awaited second novel, The Calamity Club. Her first book since The Help, this bold, big-hearted novel is set in Oxford, Mississippi, and centers on a group of unbreakable women fighting for what’s rightfully theirs and discovering the life-changing power of friendship along the way. Anticipated for years, The Calamity Club marks a major literary return, and this publication week Charleston stop offers readers a rare behind-the-scenes look at the making of the novel. This is a conversation book lovers and book clubs won’t want to miss!

Ticketing is being provided by The Charleston Music Hall – Purchase tickets HERE.

If you are unable to attend the event but would like to purchase one or more signed copies, please visit Buxton Books.

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. Oxford, Mississippi, 1933. – Abandoned by her mother one Christmas Eve, eleven-year-old Meg Lefleur has learned the hard way to rely on no one. Now one of the unadoptable “big girls” at the Lafayette County Orphan Asylum, she fights each day to keep her spirit unbowed. Birdie Calhoun, unmarried and outspoken, has come to Oxford to ask her socialite sister to help the struggling family she’s left behind. But as the Depression tightens its grip, Birdie discovers her sister’s seemingly charmed life is a tapestry of lies. Then, Birdie encounters Charlie, a woman running low on luck with little left to lose. When their fates—and Meg’s—converge, Charlie comes up with an audacious plan to claim what’s rightfully theirs. But in a place and time where hypocrisy is rife, and women’s freedom is fragile, even the smallest act of defiance can have dangerous consequences. The Calamity Club will make you laugh, cry, and cheer—an epic testament to underestimated 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.

About the Author

Kathryn Stockett was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. Her first novel, The Help, has sold over 15 million copies worldwide and was translated into 35 languages. The Calamity Club is her second novel. She lives in New York City and Mississippi.