The member of the wedding

Set in a small Southern town during one summer, this story follows twelve-year-old Frankie Addams, a lonely, awkward girl who feels she belongs nowhere. When her older brother prepares to marry, she becomes convinced that the wedding will open a new life for her and that she will leave town with the couple. Her days are spent in the kitchen with the family cook Berenice and her young cousin John Henry, talking and dreaming. McCullers captures the confusion and intensity of adolescence with humour and sadness. She also adapted the book into a successful stage play.