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The Secret of Hurricanes
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| Published by MacAdam/Cage |
| September 16, 2002 |
| ISBN: 1-931561-10-9 |
| 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. For years she has been an object of curiosity and scorn, and now she has defied society's conventions once again: she is pregnant and no one knows who the father is. In THE SECRET OF HURRICANES Pearl tells her unborn child about 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.
REVIEWS and PRAISE
“It's a pity that Oprah has shuttered her book club, since this novel about a woman overcoming a fractured past might have found a home with her. From the works of Flannery O'Connor to Denis Johnson, Southern literature has made a special place for eccentrics, and this solid debut...bears out that connection.”—Publishers Weekly
“In simple and sedate prose, Williams fashions an emotional hurricane that sweeps into the life of a young girl who grapples to hold on to whatever limb is extended to her. Dysfunctional families, murder, and excruciating loneliness are at the core of this...very well written novel.”—Booklist
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