Mother of Pearl (novel) they had not had before, until their paths cross owing to their common acquaintance of loner mystic Joody Two Sun. Mother of Pearl (novel) "See Nacre for material produced by mollusks." 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. 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 Pearl of Love and colder" "sense of colour", and, wearying "altogether of carvings and pictures and inlaid ornamentation", has them "put aside". The prince comes "to care . . . more and more" for "a great aisle" that permits "a vista" of, "the snowy wildernesses of the great mountain, the lord of all mountains, two hundred miles away." All who look upon the Pearl of Love are "exalted", yet the prince feels that, "The Pearl of Love had still something for him to do . . . before his task was done." He realizes that the problem is "a certain disproportion about the