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Kathryn Stockett is back with the long-awaited follow-up to her bestselling novel The Help

The author has shared the cover of her new novel, The Calamity Club , with PEOPLE exclusively

The novel traces the "unlikely sisterhood" between three characters in Depression-era Mississippi

When sitting down to start her long-awaited second novel, The Calamity Club , author Kathryn Stockett had a singular focus.

“I began to write this story with this thought in mind: The underestimated woman is the one to keep your eye on ,” Stockett explains to PEOPLE. “She’s often got reserves of courage that go undetected, bad hair and a dry sense of humor. Stick her in 1933 Lafayette County, Miss., with nothing left to lose, and that is The Calamity Club .”

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