The member of the wedding / McCullers, Carson

Twelve-year-old Frankie is utterly bored until she hears about her older brother's wedding. He returns from Alaska to his Georgia, and Frankie decides she will go, uninvited, on the honeymoon.

Her brother's wedding intensifies a twelve-year-old's need to be recognized as an important person.

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

Frankie Addams, a motherless twelve-year-old raised by her father and the family's African-American cook, struggles with conflicting feelings about her brother's upcoming wedding.

Frankie Addams, a motherless twelve-year-old raised by her father and the family's African-American cook, struggles with conflicting feelings about her brother's upcoming wedding.