The Calamity Club

The Calamity Club is a historical fiction novel by American author Kathryn Stockett, published by Spiegel & Grau on May 5, 2026. It is Stockett's second novel, appearing seventeen years after her debut The Help (2009). Set in Oxford, Mississippi in 1933 during the Great Depression, the book follows two women and a girl — an orphaned girl, an unmarried bookkeeper, and a resourceful down-on-her-luck woman — whose lives converge amid the poverty, hypocrisy, and constrained freedoms of the Depression-era Deep South. It reached the top of the New York Times bestseller list on publication.

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