Back by popular demand, Jim Palmer—former chair of the Altamont School English Department, Alabama State Teacher of the Year, and a 40-year veteran educator—leads a thoughtful literary study of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers. Listed among the Modern Library’s 100 Best Novels of All Time and a Top 20 Novel of the 20th Century, this remarkable debut explores the lives of outcasts in a small Southern town with eloquence and compassion. As McCullers gives voice to those on the margins, participants will reflect on what Arthur Miller called “the holiness of the spirit of Man,” discovering the sacred within the lost and misunderstood.