Success can be paralyzing. At least it was for Kathryn Stockett (Jackson, 1969). The writer grew up in Mississippi, where she has set her only two novels. Of the first, The help (2009; Criadas y señoras in the Spanish edition by Maeva), she sold 15 million copies and it became an Oscar-winning film. Sixteen years later, she has published The untamable club (Columna), translated into Catalan by Núria Parés Sellarès. It has not been an easy process for her to write this story about a group of white women who do whatever it takes to survive during the Great Depression in Mississippi and titled The calamity club in English.