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The calamity club Cover Image Large Print Book

The calamity club [large print] / Kathryn Stockett.

Stockett, Kathryn, (author.).

Summary:

"In 1933 Oxford, Mississippi, Prohibition is on the wane, and the Great Depression is tightening its grip. Poor and rich folks alike have fallen on hard times, even as the old social order remains. For women on the margins, the options are few and the price of dignity and self-determination is unbearably high. Eleven-year-old Meg, one of the unadoptable "big girls" at the Lafayette County Orphan Asylum, fights each day to keep her spirit unbowed. Birdie, unmarried and outspoken, has come to Oxford on a mission to ask her social-climbing sister to help the struggling family she's left behind. And Charlie is a woman with a past, running low on luck but driven by fire, fury, and grit. When their fates converge, they come up with an audacious plan to take back control of their lives. Together, they form an unlikely sisterhood--but in a place and time where hypocrisy is rife, women's freedom is fragile, and making an enemy can have dire consequences, will the price they pay for their outrageous risk-taking be too high?"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781420531428
  • ISBN: 1420531425
  • Physical Description: 1099 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
  • Edition: Large print edition.
  • Publisher: [Waterville, Maine] : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2026.

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General Note:
"A novel"--Cover.

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Subject:
Women > Fiction.
Abandoned children > Fiction.
Depressions > 1929 > United States > Fiction.
Friendship > Fiction.
Sisters > Fiction.
Women > Social conditions > Fiction.
Orphans > Fiction.
United States > History > 1933-1945 > Fiction.
Oxford (Miss.) > History > 20th century > Fiction.
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Large print books.
Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.

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Dorothy Wightman Library AFLP STO 0526 (Text) 30372102144554 Adult Large Print Fiction Checked out 07/21/2026