![]() ![]() When the tornado hits, Dovey, a local laundress, is flung by the terrifying winds into a nearby lake. on Palm Sunday, April 5, 1936, a massive funnel cloud flashing a giant fireball and roaring like a runaway train careened into the thriving cotton-mill town of Tupelo, Mississippi, killing more than 200 people, not counting an unknown number of black citizens, one-third of Tupelo’s population, who were not included in the official casualty figures. ![]() “Gwin’s 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 WifeĪ few minutes after 9 p.m. 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 apart-one black, one white one a great-grandmother, the other a teenager-fight for their families’ survival in this lyrical and powerful novel ![]()
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