The Story Behind Promise by Minrose Gwin. Photo courtesy Oren Dunn City Museum. Promise is based on an actual event that occurred in , the historically devastating tornado that leveled my hometown of Tupelo, in northeastern Mississippi, during the height of the Great Depression. With winds estimated at between miles per hour, an F5, the highest level on the Fujita Scale, it leveled 48 city blocks, . Minrose began her career as a newspaper reporter. Since then, she has taught as a professor at universities across the country, most recently the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She currently lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Like the characters in Promise, she grew up /5(K). · “Promise is a powerful story about yet another forgotten chapter in our great national drama. Minrose Gwin knows her characters well and writes about them and their place and times with sympathy and wisdom.” - Steve Yarbrough, author of The Realm of Last Chances “[An] impressive bltadwin.ru:
Minrose Gwin's PROMISE regals the story of two families with more than just this tragedy in common. The McNabb Family, a well-off white family with a rambunctious (Word To Keep) son, "Son", and coming-of-age daughter, Jo, who soon finds the weight of responsibility on her own shoulders, forced to be independent while her mother lies injured and. Drawing on historical events, Minrose Gwin beautifully imagines natural and human destruction in the deep South of the s through the experiences of two remarkable women whose lives are indelibly connected by forces beyond their control. PROMISE. by Minrose Gwin. BUY NOW FROM. AMAZON In her second novel, Gwin (The Queen of Palmyra, ) attempts to provide a corrective by focusing on a black family, the Grand'hommes, and a white family, the McNabbs. The story alternates between the perspectives of Dovey, the Grand'homme matriarch and a washerwoman, and Jo, the McNabbs.
“Promise is a powerful story about yet another forgotten chapter in our great national drama. Minrose Gwin knows her characters well and writes about them and their place and times with sympathy and wisdom.” - Steve Yarbrough, author of The Realm of Last Chances “[An] impressive novel. PROMISE. by Minrose Gwin. BUY NOW FROM Gwin (The Queen of Palmyra, ) attempts to provide a corrective by focusing on a black family, the Grand’hommes, and a. Like the characters in her latest novel, Promise, Minrose Gwin is a native of Tupelo, Mississippi. She grew up hearing wild stories about the devastating Tupelo tornado of flying babies, dehorned cows, people dangling in bare-limbed trees--all of which would find their way into Promise, a novel that unearths the deeper devastation of racial injustice.
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