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The Member of the Wedding

With compassion, veracity and wit, "The Member of the Wedding" depicts the intrinsically enmeshed lives of whites and blacks in the American South, centering on the awkward, twelve-year-old tomboy Frankie Adams, who falls deeply in love with her older brother and his fiance. Exhilarated by her naive conviction that being a member of their wedding means she will become what she calls the "we of me," Frankie is devastated when she learns she is not invited on the honeymoon. An adaptation of Carson McCullers' classic novel about the coming-of-age of a young girl struggling to understand adolescence and her emerging feelings of adulthood. Set in the South in 1944, the story focuses on Frankie and her relationship with the family cook, Bernice Sadie Brown, a surrogate mother for Frankie, an epic character, fiercely loyal, down-to-earth, and centered by deep faith.