The calamity club

It s been over a year since Meg s beloved mother failed to come home one Christmas eve. Since then the eleven-year-old has been one of the unadoptable big girls at The Orphan in Oxford Mississippi. There, in the face of the inexplicable disdain of Miss Faye who runs the orphanage, she fights each day to keep her wits sharp and her spirit unbowed.

Kathryn Stockett was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. After graduating from the University of Alabama with a degree in English and Creative Writing, she moved to New York City, where she worked in magazine publishing and marketing for nine years. The Help is her first novel.