The Secret of Hurricanes Book Summary and Study Guide

Pearl Starling is forty-five, a hermit with a "colorful past"--a past filled with treachery and desire, death and survival--who makes her living weaving rugs in a North Carolina military town. Pearl tells her unborn child how she has weathered the "hurricanes" in her life--from religiously reading the local newspaper to drawing inspiration from the Kennedys' abiding strength in the face of tragedy. Traveling the dark roads of her past, Pearl reveals how her need for tenderness led to sexual confusion, a relationship with a much older man, and her part in a murder thirty years ago.
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