If you’ve ever wondered what happened to the beloved characters in the hit novel (and movie)
The Help, well, don’t ask Kathryn Stockett. “They’re dead,” she says. She’s laughing, but she’s serious. There will be no sequel to the story that sold over 15 million copies and sparked a controversy about ‘white saviour’ narrative. But now she’s back with her sophomore novel,
The Calamity Club, about a group of Southern women living at the height of the Great Depression. “It’s a multilayered, generational story that I just wanted to tell,” Stockett says. “I wanted to experience all of the different people’s lives that are in the story.”
Read more.This weekend’s book pick is
Heart-Shaped Tin: Love, Loss, and Kitchen Objects by Bee Wilson, ‘full of tender observations… an emotional feast,’ writes Globe reader Cynthia Martin. I love hearing
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