Orleanna thinks that she has nothing: no money, no friends, and no way to overrule the powers in their lives. She is an inferior force. She believed that God was on Nathan's side. She feared him, but still loved him.
She was a child of the Depression. As a pretty child, she has her own way in the world. Her father is an eye doctor and they live on the outskirts of Jackson, Mississippi, in a town called Pearl. She meets Nathan as a seventeen year old girl. She and friends go to a tent revival. Their courtship creeps up on her since she does not recognize it as such. Nathan comes to the house and reads to her from the Bible. They marry and spend their honeymoon picking cotton for.....
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