Author: minrosegwin

In small-town Mississippi, a mother’s tragic death will affect her own daughters’ choices for years to come. “Rich, exquisitely crafted… Gwin pulls together the threads of all characters’ lives into an elegant and surprising tapestry” (New York Times bestselling author Diane Chamberlain).

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“Gwin’s gift shines in the complexity of her characters and their fraught relationships with each other, … with each other, their capacity for courage and hope, coupled with their passion for justice.” — Jonis Agee, bestselling author of The River WifeA few minutes after 9 p.m. on Palm Sunday, April 5, 1936, a massive funnel…

In 1960s Mississippi, racial tensions explode into violence as Florence Forrest comes of age under her Klansman father’s cruel thumb… “The most lyrical novel about race, racism, and denial in the American South since To Kill a Mockingbird” (New York Times bestselling author Lee Smith).