Melinda Haynes

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

New Jersey

Mother of Pearl

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Colorado

Stated first edition. #fiction #hardcover #firstedition #family #disability #fatherhood

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Kansas

first edition, 2001

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Mother of Pearl, a beautifully crafted and moving story of redemption and renewal set in 1960s Mississippi. Melinda Haynes's "first novel of immense and staggering power" (Pat Conroy, author of Beach Music) was an unexpected sensation, chosen for Oprah's book club and selling more than half a million copies in hardcover. Now in the same devastatingly beautiful language that has won her critical and popular acclaim, Melinda Haynes returns to the country she knows so well -- the backwoods South of the 1960s -- to tell the story of a mysterious town and its inhabitants, each with their own afflictions and joys, each with their own secrets. In sparsely populated George County, Mississippi, along a quiet dirt road lined by sharecropper houses, lies Chalktown -- a small village of folks who communicate mostly through the chalkboards hanging from their front porches. Down the road lives the Sheehand family: 16-year-old Hezekiah, his reckless sister Arena, his mentally disabled younger brother Yellababy, and their disaffected and often cruel mother, Susan Blair, whose husband has abandoned both the house and the family. One day, with Yellababy strapped to his back, Hez sets out for Chalktown, determined to plumb its mysteries, or maybe just to get away from his shabby home's oppressive atmosphere. And, on that same spring day, the family he's left behind will confront a tragedy that at once erases Hez's bitter past and paves the way for a hopeful future. Armed with a gothic and spiritual sensibility reminiscent of Flannery O'Connor, Melinda Haynes weaves her characters' lives and stories into an unforgettable tapestry of sorrow and salvation that confirms her place as one of our country's most exciting and consistently brilliant new writers.

Chalktown

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Ohio

Massachusetts

a novel

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. A first novel. 30,000 first printing.

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North Carolina

A Novel

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

Mother of Pearl - Oprah Pick # 25

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Missouri

In this well-crafted, evocative novel by the author of Mother of Pearl, a poor family struggles to survive in a small 1960s Mississippi town in the face of mind-numbing poverty, an absent father, a disaffected and often cruel mother, mental disability, and tragedy. Reprint.

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Maine

Pennsylvania

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Michigan

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Wisconsin

Florida

The story of a relationship between two unlikely people set in the Deep South. #1950 #melindahaynes #hardcover #relationships 

Indiana

Mother of pearl

New Mexico

Featuring a WSP Reading Group Guide
Purvis, Mississippi, 1974: Willem Fremont has just returned to his childhood hometown to come to grips with his past. He has spent his adult life held tight inside the clenched fist of panic disorder -- the stagnation produced by making too many wrong decisions was more paralyzing than a whole case of Jim Beam.
Determined that a trip back to the family farm will help him confront his unhappy upbringing, Willem is stunned to find his father's beloved acreage -- so much land, such a great big house -- in the hands of Eilene Till and her two grown sons. There's the plump and perennially unemployed Sonny, building a shrimp boat in the Tills' landlocked backyard, and Bruno, a disabled Vietnam vet, who escapes into his stash of old National Geographics while his wife, Leah, seeks a small measure of comfort in the day-to-day tending of their farm. How Willem navigates through these unsettled lives to find love and reconciliation in his own is at the heart of this compassionate portrait of small-town America that celebrates the unusual, embraces the unwanted, and opens its arms to all lost souls in search of a home.

Willem's Field

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Maryland

Connecticut

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Georgia

Mother of Pearl 

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California

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Virginia

First edition "Mother of Pearl is
a first novel of immense and staggering
power. I had never heard of #MelindaHaynes in my lite,
but
everyone in America will be hearing about her very soon.
Her
sentences have the beauty of coined silver forks resting on
linen. Her dialogue shimmers. Something absolutely wonderful
is
going on here and it might be the surprise one feels
encountering greatness.
-Pat Conroy, author of Beach Music

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