A 12-year-old girl learns something about life when her brother gets married.
A 12-year-old girl learns something about life when her sister gets married and a young boy dies.
Twelve-year-old Frankie cannot understand why everyone disapproves of her idea of going on her brother's honeymoon. A lonely young girl decides that she will accompany her brother and his wife on their honeymoon.
A story of black and white in the American South with Berenice Sadie Brown, a black cook who mothers the motherless Frankie Addams, a lonely over-imaginative Georgia girl.
"Carson McCullers--novelist, dramatist, poet--was at the peak of her powers as a writer of short fiction. Here are nineteen stories that explore her signature themes: wounded adolescence, loneliness in marriage, and the tragicomedy of life in the South. Here too are two novellas…
