The Member of the Wedding: Summary The book I read was The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers. It takes place in a small Southern town in the early 1900’s. The story is about a young girl, named Frankie Addams, who is in a difficult stage of puberty, and finds that her whole world is changing, and she has to deal with harsh realities of love and life. Frankie is happy when she finds out that her brother, Jarvis, who she is really close to, is moving back home from Alaska and getting married. She is distraught because she is not feminine enough, or popular enough to be in this neighborhood club of girls who w