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The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

Author(s): Carson McCullers

Location(s): Georgia

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 1940s

McCullers, known for Southern Gothic fiction, was born in Columbus, Georgia. McCullers felt “other” as a young woman growing up in the South, and with outcast characters, she explores that isolation and deep desire for connection in her fiction. The Ballad of the Sad Café is a beautiful, haunting novella of unrequited love involving a huge manly woman, a hunchbacked midget, and an ex-con, and which climaxes in a small-town brawl.

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