Promise by Minrose Gwin
Publisher: William Morrow
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Length: 400 pages
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Dovey does the laundry for Jo’s family, but in the wake of disaster the women find they’re much more alike than they ever could have imagined….

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Combining the disparate elements of a ghost story and a road trip novel Ward delivers a rich American story of what it means to be poor and black in rural Mississippi….

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Desperation Road by Michael Farris Smith
Publisher: Lee Bourdeaux Books
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Length: 304
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Single Sentence Summary: Russell Gaines, fresh out of prison, returns to his hometown where he crosses paths with a desperate woman and her young daughter.

Primary Characters: Russell Gaines has just been released from 11 years in prison. He returns to the small Mississippi town where he grew up in the hopes returning to the life he should have led. Maben is a hard luck a story of a young woman if there ever was one. She and her daughter are homeless, traveling on foot to the town where she also grew up….

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