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 apartone black, one white one a greatgrandmother, the other a teenagerfight for their families survival in this lyrical and powerful novel"Gwins 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 WifeA 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 cottonmill town of Tupelo, Mississippi, killing more than 200 people, not counting an unknown number of black citizens, onethird of Tupelos 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 familyher hardworking husband, Virgil, her clever sixteenyearold granddaughter, Dreama, and Promise, Dreamas beautiful lightskinned threemonthold 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...

Binding: Paperback;512 pages; Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers; Classification: N/A; Weight: 733.26 g; Dimensions: N/A

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