The Calamity Club
The Calamity Club is Kathryn Stockett's first novel since The Help, a big-hearted Depression-era story set in 1933 Oxford, Mississippi, where an abandoned orphan, an outspoken newcomer, and a woman fresh out of luck collide and hatch an audacious plan to seize back some control of their own lives. Warm, funny, and furious about how little the world allowed women then.
From the review
Meg Lefleur learned early to stop watching the window. She's eleven, one of the older girls at the Lafayette County Orphan Asylum, the ones nobody chooses, and Stockett introduces her mid-way through a small daily act of self-protection: refusing to hope. It's 1933 in Oxford, Mississippi, the Depression pressing down on everyone, and Meg has decided that wanting things is a luxury a girl like her can't afford. Watching a child make that calculation is the first thing the book does to you, and it sets the temperature for everything that follows.
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