false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173804482m/330244.jpg 330244 27 Twelve-year-old Frankie Adams, longing at once for escape and belonging, takes her role as "member of the wedding" to mean that when her older brother marries she will join the happy couple in their new life together. But Frankie is unlucky in love; her mother is dead, and Frankie narrowly escapes being raped by a drunken soldier during a farewell tour of the town. Worst of all, "member of the wedding" doesn't mean what she thinks. A gorgeous, brief coming-of-age novel. 604941 1946 The Member of the Wedding total:1938|5:518|4:719|3:493|2:143|1:65| 1938 7296 2882 184 4 5 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Jul 23 16:34:58 -0700 2007 Sat Dec 15 06:31:17 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 4 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Oct 03 14:43:49 -0700 2007 Tue Dec 18 08:19:29 -0800 2007 --WWII time period
--Berenice, the black housekeeper who is a storyteller and surrogate mother to the adolescent protagonist
--Descriptions of Southern food (eaten in kitchen, where much of the action transpires)
--The threesome of the adult female black housekeeper, the...more...]]> 5 3 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 29 16:00:10 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 29 16:06:29 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu May 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 17 05:42:23 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 08:33:25 -0700 2009
For me, even more than in 'The Heart is a Lonely Hunter,' the characters reveal their skeletons in a way that doesn't separate you from their pain, but instead forces you to stare in gawky horror at t...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Sat Aug 18 09:38:48 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 18 09:40:36 -0700 2007 The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (another book by McCullers). There is one main character you are concerned about and they story is simple, despite this the characters had depth and I was able to relate and ponder on human nature. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter h...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1989 Fri Nov 09 08:55:28 -0800 2007 Fri Nov 09 08:55:28 -0800 2007
For t...more...]]> 5 0 false true Wed Jan 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 00:20:31 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 00:23:17 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 01 21:14:41 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 21:52:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false true Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 10:10:51 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 10:11:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 13:39:29 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 13:46:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 18:23:10 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 12:13:21 -0700 2009 The Heart is a Lonely Hunter when I was in 10th grade, for English class with the best English teacher I had ever, including in college. And I loved it. With all of my heart. I've read that book over and over, and I even wrote a curriculum unit on i...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jun 15 01:43:29 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 21:13:50 -0700 2009 McCullers does one thing right that everybody else in the whole fucking world seems to get wrong all the fucking time, that is to say she creates...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 16:38:40 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 22:24:02 -0700 2009 The Heart is a Lonely Hunter to take a penetrating look at a Mick Kelly type character. Frankie Addams has many parallels to Heart's lovable teenage tomboy, down to the inclination towards hero-worship and a penchant for dramatic self-destruction. What makes The M...more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Jul 17 10:45:13 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 17 17:56:56 -0700 2008 4 0 false true Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 01 11:18:05 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 11:18:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 28 16:47:46 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 01 11:06:41 -0700 2008 The Member of the Wedding (1946), Frankie Addams, a 12-year-old girl who could be the literary sister of Mick Kelly from McCullers’ earlier novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, finds herself bored and lonely one summer, dying to leave town. Then, a family wedding arises, gi...more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Jun 02 16:51:50 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 02 16:57:59 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Apr 08 16:49:40 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 25 20:11:08 -0700 2008
I like reading it allegorically-- Frankie being Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jarvis/Janis being the Japanese who break down America's immature isolationist practices. Reading this no...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Fri Nov 09 16:04:20 -0800 2007 Fri Nov 09 16:06:26 -0800 2007
I was not an adolescent when I read it--I was 23--but I was astonished by how often McCullers was able to perfectly describe what I had believed to be indescribable experiences. In...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Nov 04 05:20:56 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 05:24:12 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=330244