num_pages: 512
description: 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. Reprint.
language: English
title: Mother of Pearl
titlecomplete: Mother of Pearl
genres: Drama, Historical, Adult, Southern, Adult Fiction, Novels, Historical Fiction, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 20180
places: Mississippi
publisher: Pocket