Light in August Inset: Max and Mame's Restaurant (Location Key)

The "small, dingy, back street restaurant" that Max and Mame own in Light in August serves both food and sex: its waitresses are prostitutes from Memphis (172). The men who sit at its "long wooden counter lined with backless stools" are neither "farmers" nor "townsmen" - "They looked like people who had just got off a train and who would be gone tomorrow and who did not have any address" (174).