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3.6/5 Publication date June 1999 Originally published June 1999 Genre Novel Publisher Hyperion Books | 3.7/5 Goodreads Language English OCLC 369530069 ISBN 0-7868-6627-6 Country United States of America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (hardback & paperback) Pages 448 pp (hardback edition) Similar Melinda Haynes books, Novels |
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Mother of Pearl (1999) is a novel by Melinda Haynes, and was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection, June 1999. The audio version is performed by Nana Visitor.
Plot introduction
Set in Petal, Mississippi, a small town at the close of the 1950s, this novel tells the story of the 28-year-old Even Grade, a black man who grew up an orphan, and Valuable Korner, a 15-year-old white girl, who is the daughter of the town prostitute and an unknown father. They are both separately seeking the family, love, and affection they had not had before, until their paths cross owing to their common acquaintance of loner mystic Joody Two Sun.
Characters in Mother of Pearl
References
Mother of Pearl (novel) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA