TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gwin, Minrose,
TI  - Promise
SN  - 9780062471710
AV  - PS3607.W56 P76 2018
U1  - 813/.6 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 
KW  - African American women
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Tornadoes
KW  - Natural disasters
KW  - Teenage girls
KW  - Tupelo (Miss.)
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
N2  - 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
ER  -