17 Years After ‘The Help,’ Kathryn Stockett releases ‘The Calamity Club’

The Calamity Club, the highly-anticipated novel from the globally bestselling author of The Help, is here at last! “17 Years After The Help, Kathryn Stockett Returns to Mississippi,” writes Elisabeth Egan in The New York Times. “It was a blockbuster hit, yet she says she was “fired” by her publisher. After a spell in Bali, she’s back on home turf with The Calamity Club.” Stockett celebrated her release on May 4th at St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church in Brooklyn Heights, in conversation with Adriana Trigiani (Stockett was also featured on Adriana Trigiani’s You Are What You Read podcast).

Forthcoming in more than 20 languages, named a “most anticipated book of 2026” by The New York Times, Goodreads, Town & Country, Minnesota Star Tribune, Garden & Gun, AARP, Woman’s World, Country Living, and Oprah Daily, The Calamity Club is an epic testament to underestimated women who know that calamity can be the spark of new beginnings.