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| Willem's Field |
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| by Melinda Haynes |
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| ...Bruno and Leah's troubled marriage [is] portrayed with delicacy and depth....Haynes depicts some scenes so carefully they become sluggish. Her Mississippi is chock-full of cuteness and caricature, but Bruno and Leah are riveting and... Read More |
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| Publication Date: June 2004 |
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| Chalktown |
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| by Melinda Haynes |
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| 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... Read More |
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| Publication Date: June 2002 |
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| Mother of Pearl |
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| by Melinda Haynes |
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| 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... Read More |
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| Publication Date: May 2001 |
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| Mother of Pearl (Oprah's Book Club) |
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| by Melinda Haynes |
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| [A] promising debut....As style, her prose is often beautiful and full of grace, but as communication it can be confusing....What lingers are moments, sayings, and the marvelous descriptions of sights and sounds... |
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| Publication Date: June 2000 |
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