A prim high school French teacher in her mid-twenties married to the inattentive Dean. She struggles with her attraction to a seductive student while processing her mother's death. Ultimately, she chooses her marriage, reads Persuasion with Dean to rekindle their love, and is pregnant a year later.
Bernadette initiates the book club specifically after connecting with Prudie.
Jocelyn and Prudie bond over their intense, serious approach to literary analysis.
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