Mother of Pearl
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Capturing all the rueful irony and racial ambivalence of small-town Mississippi in the late 1950s, Melinda Haynes' celebrated novel is a wholly unforgettable exploration of family, identity, and redemption.Mother of Pearlrevolves around twenty-eight-year-old Even Grade, a black man who grew up an orphan, and Valuable Korner, the fifteen-year-old white daughter of the town whore and an unknown father. Both are passionately determined to discover the precious things neither experienced as children: human connection, enduring commitment, and, above all, unconditional love. A startlingly accomplis...
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- MOTHER OF PEARL
- CONTENTS
- THE PROCURATOR OF JUDÆA
- AMYCUS AND CELESTINE
- THE LEGEND OF SAINTS OLIVERIA AND LIBERETTA
- CHAPTER I
- CHAPTER II
- CHAPTER III
- CHAPTER IV
- ST. EUPHROSINE
- SCHOLASTICA
- OUR LADY’S JUGGLER
- II
- III
- THE MASS OF SHADOWS
- LESLIE WOOD
- THE MANUSCRIPT OF A VILLAGE DOCTOR
- MEMOIRS OF A VOLUNTEER[4]
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- II
- III
- DAWN
- MADAME DE LUZY
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- II
- III
- THE BOON OF DEATH BESTOWED
- A TALE OF THE MONTH OF FLORÉAL IN THE YEAR II
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- II
- THE LITTLE LEADEN SOLDIER
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