And yet, according to the antique Beauty Map, she had been prized for her beauty-which meant, if Eden had been born in an earlier time, she too might have been beautiful.-And, of course, there’s the author’s villainess classifications and traits she uses for people of color versus the pureness she ascribes to whiteness. Polka Dot bikini was Eden’s kind, right down to her long blond hair and big blue eyes. Eden Newman must mate before her 18th birthday in six months or shell be left outside to die in a burning world. Perhaps an incident from her childhood, where she was 'slandered' by a Black boy hurling an unspecified racial slur 'usually targeted at Blacks' from a school bus when she a young girl, saying vile things about her 'bee-stung lips', is what inspired 'Save The Pearls' her weak attempts at trying to romanticize racial passing and explain away blackface while having implemented a plot device where Eden smears body paint on her face called 'Midnight Luster', and applies red lipstick to make her lips look fuller her sexual fetishization of Coal men, reducing them to nothing more than bed-bucks to be approached with the utmost caution by Pearl women to eventually mate with for status darkness being equated with being smarmy and dangerous pearl equaling delicate and rare this sentence describing the book from her site: “this captivating novel set in a terrifying future, which is all too easy to imagine” - because apparently a world where Black people are have structural power is a world she or her readers shouldn’t have to fathom the fact that the female protagonist seems to bemoan the loss of her white privilege and capital a white woman where her womahood isn't pedestaled-Ms. Sand Dollar Press, Incorporated, 2012 - Juvenile Fiction - 307 pages. Revealing Eden by Victoria Foyt xrr rating0/5 Eden Newman must mate before her 18th birthday in six months or she’ll be left outside to die in a burning world.