Bibliograph

Promise, Minrose Gwin

Type

Label

Promise, Minrose Gwin

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Promise

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1026408560

Responsibility statement

Minrose Gwin

Summary

"In the aftermath of a devastating tornado that rips through the town of Tupelo, Mississippi, at the height of the Great Depression, two women worlds apart--one black, one white; one a great-grandmother, the other a teenager--fight for their families' survival in this lyrical and powerful novel." -- Publisher annotationA 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

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