When Jo later discovers a baby in the wreckage, she is certain that she’s found her baby brother, Tommy. Jo, the McNabbs’ dutiful teenage daughter, has suffered a terrible head wound. Inside, she discovers that the tornado has spared no one. Slowly navigating the broken streets of Tupelo, Dovey stops at the house of the despised McNabb family. Bruised and nearly drowned, she makes her way across Tupelo to find her small family. When the tornado hits, Dovey, a local laundress, is flung by the terrifying winds into a nearby lake. They were not included in the official casualty figures. More than 200 people were killed, not counting an unknown number of black citizens. It careened into the thriving cotton-mill town of Tupelo, Mississippi. on Palm Sunday, April 5, 1936, a massive funnel cloud hit town. The plot focuses on two women: A black great-grandmother and a white teen.Ī few minutes after 9 p.m. A devastating tornado hit Tupelo, Mississippi at the height of the Great Depression. Today’s book review, Promise, is based on a real event.
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