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The Member of the Wedding
McCullers, Carson

The Member of the Wedding

Bantam Books (1975)
0553237667
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153 pages
LC Classification PS3525.A1772
LC Control No. 2009658214

Subject

  • Adolescence -- Fiction.
  • African American Women -- Fiction.
  • Domestic Fiction.
  • Georgia -- Fiction.
  • Girls -- Fiction.
  • Weddings -- Fiction.
  • Weddings.

Plot

From the master of Southern Gothic, Carson McCullers's coming-of-age story like no other about a young girl's fascination with her brother's wedding.Twelve-year-old Frankie is utterly, hopelessly bored with life until she hears about her older brother's wedding. Bolstered by lively conversations with her family maid, Berenice, and her six-year-old cousin--not to mention her own unbridled imagination--Frankie takes on an overly active role in the wedding, hoping even to go, uninvited, on the honeymoon, so deep is her desire to be a member of something larger, more accepting than herself.

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Notes

A story of black and white in the American South with Berenice Sadie Brown, a black cook who mothers the motherless Frankie Addams, a lonely over-imaginative Georgia girl.