The Secret of Hurricanes
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 ho...