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 sarcophagus" that causes it to, "lay incongruously in the great vista of the Pearl of Love." He returns with "an architect and two master craftsmen and a small retinue" and then, after long, silent deliberation—"no one knew the thoughts that passed through his mind"—he points at his wife’s sarcophagus and says, "Take that thing away." "The Pearl of Love" was first published in "The Strand Magazine" in December 1925. In 1927 Wells told the "Sunday Express" that "The Pearl of Love" and "The Country of the Blind" were his favorites among the stories he had written. The Pearl of Love