McCullers, Carson

A deaf-mute who has lost his only friend to a hospital for the insane becomes the recipient of the confidences of several other town residents.

Twelve-year-old Frankie cannot understand why everyone disapproves of her idea of going on her brother's honeymoon.

A deaf mute who has lost his only friend to a hospital for the insane becomes the recipient of the confidences of several other town residents.

John Singer, a deaf man in a Southern mill town in the 30's, becomes the pivotal figure in a strange circle of four other lonely individuals.

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.