01037cam a2200289 4500 1261846433 TxAuBib 981028s1999||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 98047014 9780786864850 0786864850 9780786866274 0786866276 (OCoLC)838 DLC DLC CLE IQU FIT OCLCQ TxAuBib Haynes, Melinda. Mother of pearl : a novel / Melinda Haynes. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion, 1999. 448 p. ; 25 cm. A novel on a town in 1950s Mississippi and the characters who populate it. They include a witch who communicates with the moon, an orphaned girl who writes poetry, and the men in their lives. African American men Fiction. Race relations Fiction. Teenage girls Fiction. Mississippi Fiction. Psychological fiction.