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The Calamity Club
Edité par Fig Tree - paru en 2026
In 1933 Oxford, Mississippi, Prohibition is on the wane, and the Great Depression is tightening its grip. Poor and rich folks alike have fallen on hard times, even as the old social order remains. For women on the margins, the options are few and the price of dignity and self-determination is unbearably high. Eleven-year-old Meg, one of the unadoptable big girls at the Lafayette County Orphan Asylum, fights each day to keep her spirit unbowed. Birdie, unmarried and outspoken, has come to Oxford on a mission to ask her social-climbing sister to help the struggling family she's left behind. And Charlie is a woman with a past, running low on luck but driven by fire, fury, and grit. When their fates converge, they come up with an audacious plan to take back control of their lives. Together, they form an unlikely sisterhood but in a place and time where hypocrisy is rife, women's freedom is fragile, and making an enemy can have dire consequences, will the price they pay for their outrageous risk-taking be too high?
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Trop de thèmes qui s’emmêlent et ne sont pas assez approfondis: la grande dépression, la prohibition, la prostitution, la pauvreté et l’hypocrisie notamment dans les états du sud sur des sujets comme l’homosexualité ou l’adultère, les thérapies de conversion , la maltraitance des enfants, autant de thèmes qui m’ont laissé une impression de fouillis et de superficialité. J’en attendais beaucoup étant donné la hype autour de la sortie de ce 2ème opus, alors que j’avais en son temps adoré le premier. J’ai tout lu mais je suis restée sur ma faim.
Annita - Le 12 novembre 2026 à 10:36