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Melinda Haynes

Melinda Haynes is a lifelong Southerner, who lives with her husband in Alabama.

She is the bestselling author of Mother of Pearl, an Oprah′s Book Club selection, which we published in Flamingo in 2000, and Chalktown, which we published in 2001.
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Willem's Field Willem's Field
From the bestselling author of Mother of Pearl comes a story of a unique...
Mother of Pearl Mother of Pearl
Set in a small Mississippi town in the late 1950s, Mother of Pearl is...

Interview

1. How did the idea for Mother of Pearl originate?

I believe the novel′s origin goes back about ten years, and is connected in a very real way to my internal battle against being alone. I′ll explain. A very dear friend of mine told me one day while I was "railing" against every single thing there was to rail against - God, humankind, family, love - that what I needed was a "face with skin on it." Janet was my closest friend, but forty years my senior and, sadly, most of...

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