The Calamity Club

What poor white women will do to save the people and places they love (Foote, Southern Delta, and Oxford, Mississippi; Great Depression, 1933): Kathryn Stockett is an impressive advocate for never underestimating women. “The underestimated woman is the one to keep her eye on,” she said in an interview about her new novel, The Calamity Club. Expect, then, a good number of underestimated poor white women and a girl to break and warm your heart for what they possess no amount of money can buy. Fifteen years in the making since Stockett’s fifteen-million-copies-sold sensation The Help. Worth the wait for exquisite storytelling that reads like a classic. Every page and line evokes attitudes about equality and human rights, 632 pages worth. Emotional depth driven by history. Stockett hits hard, deep and wide. To prove the stuff so-called “white trash” and “white country hicks” are made of. An ambitious undertaking. Tackling another form of entrenched prejudice and victimization inflicted on…