The Calamity Club: A Two-Part Book Club Event Series

Join us to read the newly released historical fiction novel The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett (author of The Help) This event series includes two events: Wednesday June 10th: meet and receive your hardcover copy of The Calamity Club. Enjoy a glass of wine and good conversation as we talk about diving into this book. Then we will read quietly together for an hour and begin the book together as a group. Wednesday July 1st: reconvene to have a traditional book club discussion about reading The Calamity Club. We'll craft and drink wine in addition to our discussion. Your ticket includes: a new hardcover copy of The Calamity Club (if you choose the GA w/ book ticket) admission to two 90-minute events at U Wine Bar hosted by Sam of SBC two glasses of wine or N/A beverage of choice (one at each event) craft supplies for our crafting project on night 2 a group of book lovers to read with and get to know! FAQ: What if I don't drink? No worries, U Wine has lots of great N/A options that you are welcome to have as your free beverage instead! What if I already have the book or want to read it on my e-reader? Choose a general admission ticket: no book and lower price, everything else is the same! More about The Calamity Club: (currently 4.46 on Goodreads!) 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?