The Calamity Club
Cut along the dashed lines and pass the cards around the table.
What was the first small comfort (a scene, a smell, a phrase) that made you settle into this book?
Where did you do most of your reading, and did the setting of the book start to color the rooms you were in?
Which woman in the story did you find yourself quietly rooting for, and what about her felt familiar?
The Depression forced people to 'make do.' What stories from your own family (or your own life) came back to you while reading?
There are lots of little acts of kindness tucked into hard times here. Which one stayed with you after you closed the book?
Stockett writes women who lean on each other in unshowy ways. When has a friendship in your life felt like that?
As the women each try to 'improve their circumstances,' which of their hopes moved you most, and why do you think it hit you where it did?
Without giving anything away, how did the book leave you feeling on the last page, hopeful, tender, wistful, and what do you think Stockett wanted you to carry away?