155. "The Member of the Wedding" by Carson McCullers

I tried to read Carson McCullers' The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter multiple times before finally succeeding, and I was disappointed in the book because I'd expected to love it. So I tackled The Member of the Wedding with some uncertainty but an open mind. I ended up enjoying it very much. It's the tale of adolescent Frankie, an imaginative and not entirely sane girl growing up motherless in a Southern town. When her older brother becomes engaged, she convinces herself she's going to be in the wedding and then will accompany the couple on their honeymoon and subsequent exotic, exciting life. She's mad and devilish and is like a younger version of some of Tennessee Williams' mad and devilish heroines.