Calamity Club - Kathryn Stockettová

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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 big 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 set on confronting the socialite sister who believes she s left her impoverished family 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 discovers her sister s charmed life is balanced precariously upon 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 consequencesBold, 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.