Read Recently: “Member of the Wedding”
Title: "Member of the Wedding"
Author: Carson McCullers
Synopsis: 13 year old Frankie Adams hates her life in a small southern town and plots to use her older brother’s impending wedding as her escape.
Backstory: I loved McCullers’s first novel The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and wanted to bring something short and classic to visit my parents in the Berkshire mountains. at 153 pages, this fit the bill.
Verdict: Rich, painful and sad. McCullers is a master of character, mood and setting. Once in a while, her plots seem melodramatic, drawn out for kicks rather than from the center. But her prose is such a joy to bite down on, I forgive her.
Didn’t like this one as much as "Heart" but almost. Sad that she died so young, with only a half dozen novels under her belt. But a relief in that one day I will finish them all.