Promise

A natural disaster in the Depression Era South sends two very different women in search of their families in this “extraordinary novel” (Jill McCorkle, author of Life After Life ). On Palm Sunday, April 5, 1936, a tornado devastated Tupelo, Mississippi. It killed more than 200 people, not counting an unknown number of black citizens, who were not included in the official casualty figures. In Promise , author Minrose Gwin explores this forgotten tragedy through the eyes of two women—one black, on