Bestselling author Kathryn Stockett’s new novel, “The Calamity Club,” was inspired by a photo of an oyster shucker girl. The novel centers on 11-year-old Meg, an orphan at a Mississippi orphanage where the older girls are shipped off to work in Biloxi canneries. Stockett’s book delves into Mississippi’s bleak history, including sterilization laws targeting women. Bestselling author Kathryn Stockett had been trying to answer a question. She was writing a novel set in Depression-era Mississippi, and she needed to know where the children went when their families fell apart in 1933.  A Lewis Hine photo of an oyster shucker orphan girl named Rosie inspired Kathryn Stockett’s new novel. Lewis Hine/ Public Domaine The research led her to orphanages, and then to the Gulf Coast canneries where older orphan girls were sent to shuck oysters once they were no longer considered adoptable. Photographer Lewis Hine documented these girls. Stockett spent days going through his images. Then one stopped her.…