"My grandmother was sixty-two when she married my grandfather."

That's where Pearl begins. But it is not even the most fascinating part of the story.

Pearl follows three women, Pearline, Mae Ruth, and Rae, across generations, bound by a single truth: that trauma, abandonment, and survival, when layered over time, can create something luminous. Like the oyster and the pearl. Like a woman who walks down the aisle at 62 and means every word of her vows.

This book is fiction rooted in real lives, real losses, and real love. It asks the question so many of us quietly carry: How does the hurt we inherit become something beautiful?

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