Stockett Returns With 'The Calamity Club,' Inspired by Mississippi's Dark Sterilization History

The 1928 Mississippi sterilization law resulted in forced sterilizations of individuals deemed 'feeble minded,' those with epilepsy, autism, or mental/physical disabilities, and in some cases women deemed 'promiscuous.'

Seventeen years after a debut that made her famous and drew sharp criticism, Kathryn Stockett returns with a novel born not from safety but from a disturbing discovery — a 1928 Mississippi law that authorized the sterilization of those deemed unworthy of existence. 'The Calamity Club' is her reckoning with the stories that almost no one has told in fiction: the lives of women and the vulnerable, erased by law in Depression-era Mississippi. It is the work of a writer who learned, slowly and painfully, that the only books worth writing are the ones that refuse to look away.

Stockett Returns With 'The Calamity Club,' Inspired by Mississippi's Dark Sterilization History

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