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Gwin, Minrose,

Promise / Minrose Gwin. - First edition. - New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018] - x, 386 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

A devastating tornado rips through the town of Tupelo, Mississippi, at the height of the Great Depression. Dovey, a black laundress, searches for her family. At the McNabb house she find the daughter of the house, Jo, who suffered a head wound. When a baby is found in the wreckage is it Jo's baby brother, Tommy, or Dovey's light-skinned great-grandson, Promise? The two women-- one black, one white; one a great-grandmother, the other a teenager-- are fighting for their families' survival in the aftermath of the tornado.

ISBN: 9780062471710 0062471716

Source: Harpercollins, 53 Glenmaura National Blvd Ste 300, Moosaic, PA, USA, 18507-2132 SAN 200-2086

LCCN: 2017052410

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1900-1999

Subjects--Topical Terms:
African American women--Fiction.
Race relations--Fiction.
Tornadoes--Fiction.
Natural disasters--Fiction.
Teenage girls--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Tupelo (Miss.)--History --20th century --Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Historical fiction.

LC Class. No.: PS3607.W56 / P76 2018

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.6