A survivor of a tornado that destroyed her hometown, Pearl McMaster joins her grandparents in Walker Creek, Texas when her parents set out for California.
But to those who knew and loved her intimately, she was Pearl. Acclaimed music biographer Ellis Amburn reveals the true life story of this immortal legend.
Pearl
You will fall in love with Katie, Annabelle, Ginger, Betsy, Maggie, Lucy, Sarah, Heather, Redbird, Harmony, Emma Grace, Mozella and of course Victoria Pearl. Pearl teaches us that kindness is always the best choice.
Pearl resists identification by author, date, occasion, or place of composition; still it is almost unanimously hailed as one of the masterpieces of our literature, so skilled is its author, so eloquent its language.
Bean (née Pearl) and Henry, misfits and best friends, have the strangest mothers in town.
The singer Janis Joplin's childhood in a backwater Texas town, where her classmates punished her for her individuality, fuelled the compulsion to shock which became her hallmark.