The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Carson McCullers published this novel at twenty-three. Set in a mill town in 1930s Georgia, it revolves around John Singer, a deaf man to whom a handful of isolated people, a restless girl, a Black doctor, a drifter, and a café owner, each pour out their hopes and griefs. McCullers weaves their yearnings into a moving study of loneliness, injustice, and the human need to be understood.