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1) Promise
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First Harper Perennial edition.
Physical Desc
394, 16 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"An atmospheric debut novel about growing up in the changing South in 1960s Mississippi in the tradition of The Secret Life of Bees and The Help"--Provided by publisher.
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