Promise /
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 ba...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2018].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 386 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780062471710 0062471716 |