02415cam a2200541 i 4500 560205734 TxAuBib 20220608120000.0 190625s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018276565 9780062471710 0062471716 TxAuBib rda Gwin, Minrose, author. Promise [HC] / Minrose Gwin. First edition. New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018] ©2018. x, 386 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "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. 20220608. 1900-1999. African American women Fiction. Teenage girls Fiction. Tornadoes Fiction. Natural disasters Fiction. Race relations Fiction. Fiction Family Life. Fiction Literary. African American women. Natural disasters. Race relations. Teenage girls. Tornadoes. Tupelo (Miss.) History 20th century Fiction. Mississippi Tupelo. Fiction. History. Historical fiction. Fiction historical. Fiction. Historical fiction. History.