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01711aam a2200337Ii 4500 001 E37B6CB4865111ECBDD78B5156ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220205010418 008 190319t20192018nyua 000 1 eng d 020 $a 0062471724 020 $a 9780062471727 035 $a (OCoLC)1090146584 040 $a TDS $b eng $e rda $c TDS $d OCLCF $d YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d WIQ $d OCLCO $d BUP $d SILO 043 $a n-us-ms 100 1 $a Gwin, Minrose, $e author. 245 10 $a Promise / $c Minrose Gwin. 250 $a First William Morrow Paperback edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, $c [2019] 300 $a x, 386, 13 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 21 cm 500 $a Includes discussion questions. 520 $a 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. 650 0 $a African American women $x Fiction. 650 0 $a Teenage girls $x Fiction. 650 0 $a Tornadoes $x Fiction. 650 0 $a Natural disasters $x Fiction. 650 0 $a Race relations $x Fiction. 651 0 $a Tupelo (Miss.) $x Fiction. $y 20th century $x Fiction. 941 $a 1 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20220205011718.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E37B6CB4865111ECBDD78B5156ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b BUPInitiate Another SILO Locator Search