"The Invitation to the Wedding", one of Carson McCullers' best novels (which was honored with the New York Critics' Award in 1950), describes with infinite tenderness a simple human story. Twelve-year-old Frankie Adams, orphaned by her mother, invests all her imaginary desires for the future in her brother's wedding and experiences an intense crisis that lasts a weekend. Through a narrow window, the reader observes what happens in the mind of a child torn between the longing to "belong" and the intense urge to escape far away.