Promise
By: Minrose Gwin
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780062471710
Subjects: Race relations; Teenage girls; African American women; Natural disasters; History; Tornadoes; Fiction
Description: "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 annotation.

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.