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Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes is a rich, tragicomic novel set in 1950s Mississippi, focusing on the intertwined lives of Even Grade, a Black orphan seeking love, and Valuable Korner, a white teenager whose life is complicated by her mother's profession and family secrets, exploring themes of race, family, identity, and the deep South's racial divides through characters like Joody Two Sun, a mystical seer, and others caught in a web of longing and hidden connections, ultimately revealing complex family ties, including Even and Val being half-siblings.
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