author of Promise
Saturday, October 20, 10:10 a.m.
Minrose Gwin returns with her novel Promise, which Booklist cites as “a gripping tale of racism, power, and the bonds that make a family [that] explores how one can rebuild after tragedy strikes.” Set in Tupelo at the time of the 1936 F5 tornado that killed over 200 white residents and an unrecorded number of African Americans, Promise chronicles the intertwined lives of two families, one black and one white, in the aftermath of the storm. Gwin has also published the novel The Queen of Palmyra, along with the memoir Wishing for Snow and the literary study Remembering Medgar Evers: Writing the Long Civil Rights Movement. She is also co-editor of The Literature of the American South and The Southern Literary Journal.
Did you know?
- Minrose Gwin is an alumna of The W.
- Tupelo, MS, her home town, serves as the inspiration for her novel Promise.
- She has worked for various newspapers and universities throughout the U.S.
