Kathryn Stockett Talks ‘The Calamity Club’ & Finding Her Way Back to Mississippi
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Jenna Bush Hager welcomes Kathryn Stockett to talk about The Calamity Club, her first novel since The Help. Kathryn reveals how the story came together, the historical discovery that changed everything, and why writing honestly meant letting go of what readers and critics might think.
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