Rapture Begins

As a boy, David meets an interesting woman, Pearl, through his grandmother, Pauline. Pearl is a middle-aged Creole woman with a little dog who comes in and out of David's life the rest of his life. Pearl is a strong woman with strong convictions of what is right and wrong for David, and she seems to appear and vanish as fast as she has come into his life. David is smitten with Pearl and has so m...