01001cam a2200253 4500 134909788 TxAuBib 20130419120000.0 990803s1999||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 98-47104 9780786866274 $24.00 0786866276 $24.00 TxAuBib Haynes, Melinda. Mother of pearl; : a novel.. 1st. ed. New York : Hyperion, [1999] 448p. In a small Mississippi town during the late 1950s, Even Grade, a twenty-eight-year-old Black man who grew up as an orphan, and Valuable Korner, the teenage white daughter of the local prostitute, search for love, family, and commitment as their lives intersect with that of Joody Two Sun, a seer who becomes Even's lover. 20130419. Afro-American-Mississippi-Fiction. Oprah's Book Club. TXRUB