About the Book “I love this book. The tale of Rigby John is rich with knowing—the prose is deft, funny, heartbreaking, and the story stays with you long after the last page is turned.” —A. M. Homes, author of This Book Will Save Your Life and The Mistress’s Daughter The year is 1967, and [...]
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All-Bright Court and Imani All Mine by Connie Rose Porter
Downloadable Guide for Group Discussion and Classroom Use All-Bright Court In the upstate New York mill town of Lackawanna, the company-built housing project known as All-Bright Court represents everything its residents have dreamed of — jobs, freedom, and a future. The outcome of those dreams is the stuff of Connie Porter’s acclaimed debut novel. [...]
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
About The Member of the Wedding Carson McCullers’s third novel, The Member of the Wedding was first published by Houghton Mifflin Company in 1946. Set in a small southern town in the 1940s, the book examines a crucial turning point in adolescence. Many people consider it McCullers’s masterpiece. Twelve-year-old Frankie Addams is utterly, hopelessly [...]
