A review by reikista
Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes

4.0

Even Grade is an orphan and Valuable Korner may as well be, her mother being a whore and her father unknown to her. Both of them live in a small town in Mississippi and this is their story. And the story of Jackson, who was Val's friend and became her lover; and her two queer aunts who mother her; and of Grace who mothers Joleb, who loses his brother and almost loses himself; and of Canaan, who knows much with his head and learns more from his heart; and of Joody two Suns, who reads people but not herself. It’s really a story of the many faces of love, and how deep bonds of family can form in spite of differences in race or generation.