The Black Pearl Literary Perspective, LLC. 

The Black Pearl Literary Perspective - is a Christian publishing company that strive to capture the fluent expression and the close relationship between times, places and emotion through the use of imagery and episodic memory. It calls to mind life’s spiritual lessons within the context of prayer moving simultaneously with the good and the bad; linking the two and shifting outcomes. A phenomenon commonly known as, “Prayer Changes Things.” Black Pearl seeks to tell stories that share lessons moving situations from a carnal to a spiritual expression.

It is in this spirit that a Black Pearl Literary Perspective novel, theatrical production, podcast or blog is written and to be fully enjoyed. The author will always be found in her stories honest in words, events, experiences and character development. Exhausting senses and remembering the simplest of things to capture the nuance of fleeting moments.

“Front Porches & Corner Stores” has launched and it’s out there doin what it’s gonna do so get involved in the discussion. It’s all about community, reminiscin. Re-memberin that there is love in the Black community, you just have to know what it looks like. For me it was braidin a boys hair on the front porch so he could rock a large fro. It was waiting an hour for a friend to get dress to walk to the corner store to buy washin powder. It was the smell of barbeque, the sound of the ice cream truck and Mrs. Harris greens cookin at 1 o’clock in the afternoon. Remember, it takes a village to raise a child. Remember the strength of community and family.

          Front Porches & Corner Stores is about one single thread of prayer… “Father God in The Mighty Name of Jesus! My Sweet Lord. Please Sir! If it be thy pleasure and if it be thy will. Let this bitter cup pass. Tear it up from the root that this family may walk with you down through the generations all the days of our lives. Amen.”

          The petition placed before God by Mother Howard, the wife of Daddy Howard, the mother of JE, Addiemae and nine other children sends them spinnin for generations. Although the novel follows the main characters of each generation, it highlights their counterparts, lifestyles and communities. The stories told, challenge the reader to consider the role and merit of every family member and friend as they are introduced and developed through relevant dialogue, situations and circumstances.

JE whom some may consider a womanizer and his wife Honey whom some may feel lived vicariously through JE, leave the South. The family takes up residence in Robert Brooks Extensions, a Chicago project and begin to realize the consequences of their decision to marry amidst Daddy Howard’s warnin that they “weren’t gon never twain become that one flesh the bible talks about.”

Esther who smelled like Bergamot after decades of being divorced, livin alone, and hoardin is fearful of datin and beginnin life again at the age of 60. After hearing the gospel pour out of a church on the corner, she finds herself walkin over to the church and down to the alter.

Layla, the youngest daughter of JE and Honey is found on a block in Roseland coming of age without the family noticin…or so she thought.

Cousin Emma’s son Carl feels obligated to marry his girlfriend at church when she loses both her parents and he impregnates her in a moment of indiscretion.

And the beat goes on. Throughout the story arcs, prayer emerges to change things. But…it was gon take more than prayer to bring them through to an expected end. There were lessons to be learned and much work to do.

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