The Resource Promise, Minrose Gwin
Promise, Minrose Gwin
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The item Promise, Minrose Gwin represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Amesbury Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Promise, Minrose Gwin represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Amesbury Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- 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-- are fighting for their families' survival in the aftermath of the tornado
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- x, 386 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062471710
- Label
- Promise
- Title
- Promise
- Statement of responsibility
- Minrose Gwin
- Subject
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- African American women -- Fiction
- African American women -- Fiction
- Depressions
- FICTION -- Family Life
- FICTION -- Historical
- FICTION -- Literary
- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- History
- Mississippi -- Tupelo
- Natural disasters
- 1900-1999
- Race relations
- Race relations -- Fiction
- Teenage girls
- Teenage girls -- Fiction
- Teenage girls -- Fiction
- Tornadoes
- Tornadoes -- Fiction
- Tornadoes -- Fiction
- Tupelo (Miss.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Natural disasters -- Fiction
- African American women
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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-- are fighting for their families' survival in the aftermath of the tornado
- Cataloging source
- OQX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Gwin, Minrose
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3607.W56
- LC item number
- P76 2018
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- African American women
- Teenage girls
- Tornadoes
- Natural disasters
- Race relations
- Tupelo (Miss.)
- Tornadoes
- FICTION
- FICTION
- FICTION
- African American women
- Depressions
- Natural disasters
- Race relations
- Teenage girls
- Tornadoes
- Mississippi
- African American women
- Teenage girls
- Tornadoes
- Label
- Promise, Minrose Gwin
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1023802429
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- x, 386 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062471710
- Lccn
- 2017052410
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1023802429
- Label
- Promise, Minrose Gwin
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1023802429
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- x, 386 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062471710
- Lccn
- 2017052410
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1023802429
Subject
- African American women -- Fiction
- African American women -- Fiction
- Depressions
- FICTION -- Family Life
- FICTION -- Historical
- FICTION -- Literary
- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- History
- Mississippi -- Tupelo
- Natural disasters
- 1900-1999
- Race relations
- Race relations -- Fiction
- Teenage girls
- Teenage girls -- Fiction
- Teenage girls -- Fiction
- Tornadoes
- Tornadoes -- Fiction
- Tornadoes -- Fiction
- Tupelo (Miss.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Natural disasters -- Fiction
- African American women
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