First published 1955
As Mississippi plantation owner Big Daddy faces his mortality, his dysfunctional family gathers to fight over his vast estate. Alcoholic ex-football star Brick and his wife Maggie the "Cat" are at the center of the storm, their marriage crumbling under the weight of past trauma and Brick's refusal to face the truth. With time running out, the stakes couldn't be higher as they all struggle to secure their piece of the pie and confront the emotional ghosts that haunt them.
Genres: fiction, drama, literary-fiction, 20th-century, southern-gothic, family-drama
Vibes: atmospheric, emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: dysfunctional-family, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Mississippi, Southern States
Period: 20th-century
1 pages · Mass Market Paperback · Signet
Content warnings: alcohol-abuse, depression, mental-illness