# The Member of the Wedding

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- Book: [The Member of the Wedding](https://www.bookquiver.com/carson-mccullers/the-member-of-the-wedding) ([The Member of the Wedding.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/carson-mccullers/the-member-of-the-wedding.md))
- Authors: [Carson McCullers](https://www.bookquiver.com/carson-mccullers)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-282-7
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2008-03-27
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

With delicacy of perception and memory, humour and pathos, Carson McCullers spreads before us the three phases of a weekend crisis in the life of a motherless twelve-year-old girl. Within the span of a few hours, the irresistible, hoydenish Frankie passionately plays out her fantasies at her elder brother's wedding. Through a perilous skylight we look into the mind of a child torn between her yearning to belong and the urge to run away.