Mother of Pearl (novel)

Mother of Pearl

First edition cover
Author Melinda Haynes
Country United States
Language English
Genre Novel
Publisher Hyperion Books
Publication date
June 1999
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 448 pp (hardback edition)
ISBN 0-7868-6627-6 (hardback edition),
ISBN 0-671-77467-0 (paperback edition, Washington Square Press)
OCLC 369530069

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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


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