The heart is a lonely hunter

By Carson McCullers

Subjects: American fiction, Racism, Fiction, coming of age, Teenagers, Love stories, Psychological fiction, Suicide victims, Friendship, fiction, Large type books, Fiction, historical, FICTION / Literary, Teenage girls, Interpersonal relations, Girls, Literary, Southern states, fiction, Allegories, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Bildungsromans, Social life and customs, Deaf, Suicide, Fiction, psychological, Translations into Persian, Poor, Georgia, fiction, Friendship

Description: Set in 1930s Georgia, the novel centers around a deaf and mute man, John Singer. Singer has been devastated by the loss of his dear friend, Antonapoulos, who was committed to an asylum for bad behavior