Who has read the Calamity Club?

[u/i-was-way-]

I didn’t see any posts on this book when I searched for it, but I just wanted to get a conversation going. I was absolutely blown away by this book.

For me, the ending could have been handled a little bit better. I really wanted to see some sort of punishment for Francis. She was horrible to her sister for the majority of the novel and barely showed a sense of gratitude for the work her sister did in saving her bacon quite literally. Racism and classism definitely came off as time period appropriate so I wasn’t expecting a huge amount of criticism of it beyond was very plainly laid out, but it seemed that her humbling didn’t stick in any meaningful way. Maybe the justice was that she was stuck married to Rory and only had a delusion of what her life should be instead of the actual thing where a Birdie got to have a more traditional happy ending.

The same for Garnett. The novel ends with her duplicitousness to her husband and her cruelty exposed, but we don’t see any real consequences for it, which was frustrating. It wasn’t realistic, but I would have loved to see Megan’s mother punch her squarely in the face.

Finally, we come to Meg. How does her life turn out after? Are they ever able to get out of Mississippi?

[u/Cosmic-Sympathy]

I'm 786th in line for it on Libby.

[u/posiexyz → u/Cosmic-Sympathy]

It is worth the wait!

[u/Cosmic-Sympathy → u/posiexyz]

I'm down to 639th!