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 "Gwin's gift shines in
the complexity of her characters and their fraught relationships
with each other, their capacity for courage and hope, coupled with
their passion for justice." -- Jonis Agee, bestselling author of
The River Wife A few minutes after 9 p.m. on Palm Sunday, April 5,
1936, a massive funnel cloud flashing a giant fireball and roaring
like a runaway train careened into the thriving cotton-mill town of
Tupelo, Mississippi, killing more than 200 people, not counting an
unknown number of black citizens, one-third of Tupelo's population,
who were not included in the official casualty figures. When the
tornado hits, Dovey, a local laundress, is flung by the terrifying
winds into a nearby lake. Bruised and nearly drowned, she makes her
way across Tupelo to find her small family-her hardworking husband,
Virgil, her clever sixteen-year-old granddaughter, Dreama, and
Promise, Dreama's beautiful light-skinned three-month-old son.
Slowly navigating the broken streets of Tupelo, Dovey stops at the
house of the despised McNabb family. Inside, she discovers that the
tornado has spared no one, including Jo, the McNabbs' dutiful
teenage daughter, who has suffered a terrible head wound. When Jo
later discovers a baby in the wreckage, she is certain that she's
found her baby brother, Tommy, and vows to protect him. During the
harrowing hours and days of the chaos that follows, Jo and Dovey
will struggle to navigate a landscape of disaster and to battle
both the demons and the history that link and haunt them. Drawing
on historical events, Minrose Gwin beautifully imagines natural and
human destruction in the deep South of the 1930s through the
experiences of two remarkable women whose lives are indelibly
connected by forces beyond their control. A story of loss, hope,
despair, grit, courage, and race, Promise reminds us of the
transformative power and promise that come from confronting our
most troubled relations with one another.
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