Everything you need to understand or teach Pearl in the Mist by Virginia C. Andrews.
A year before the novel begins, Ruby Landry Dumas discovers her father lives in New Orleans and so she leaves her home in an impoverished Cajun bayou community to be reunited with him. Although Pierre Dumas is thrilled to have his daughter in his life, his wife Daphne is not so enthusiastic. After a dramatic year full of scandal, Mr. Dumas decides to send Ruby and her twin sister, Giseselle, to...