The Member of the Wedding
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.
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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This is definitely a book ahead of its time and I can see why it's a classic with To Kill A Mockingbird and Catcher In The Rye. Following 12 year old Frankie and her spiral of losing her big brother as his wedding day approaches, the author tries to introduce love, life partners and society pressures. All too subtle topics with the budding adolescent Frankie, we see her character development to try and grow up too fast from F. Jasmine to Frances. I wish I had read this in my youth.
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