Pearls

Lucrece is a desirous young woman who has spent much of her life longing, watching, waiting; she seeks to seize, in some way, what has been denied her all her life. Enter Naberius (he chose his name), an utter sleaze of a man who has something she wants, a man who thinks he knows what she wants.
In Pearls, Marcette Bolinger Byas seeks to explore envy, our worst impulses, the strained relationships of the family, negotiations with womanhood, and a family of the worst women you may ever know. Her prose is baroque and piercing, an elaborate misericorde.