MEMBER OF THE WEDDING - Penguin Modern Classics

With delicated of perception and memory, humour pathos, Carson McCullers spread before us the three phrases of a weekend crisis in the life of a motherless twelve-year-old. 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 right into the mond of a child torn between the yearning to belong and the urge to run away.