Minrose Gwin
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"The most powerful and also the most lyrical novel about race, racism, and denial in the American South since To Kill a Mockingbird."
- Lee Smith, author of On Agate Hill
"Exquisitely beautiful… The novel grips the reader from its first page and relentlessly drives us to its conclusion."
- William Ferris, author of Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues
An atmospheric debut novel about growing up in the changing South in...
2) Promise
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
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--...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 1957, Olivia McAlister is living in Opelika, Mississippi, caring for her two girls, June and Grace, and her husband, Holly. She dreams of seeing the world and returning to her wartime job at a landing boat factory in New Orleans. Olivia feels like an "accidental"-- a migratory bird blown off course. When Olivia becomes pregnant again, a botched backwoods abortion leaves Grace, June, and Holly to cope in different ways. Holly digs up...