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Promise is an extraordinary novel [...] one of racial divides, good and evil, destruction and salvation and those clear moments of grace and humanity that bring hope into the most desperate times. I could not put it down. --Jill McCorkle, author of Going Away Shoes Promise is a powerful story about yet another forgotten chapter in our great national drama. Minrose Gwin knows her characters well and writes about them and their place and times with sympathy and wisdom. --Steve Yarbrough, author of The Realm of Last Chances Lyrically precise, taut, and realistic, Promise kept me absorbed from beginning to end. --Julie Kibler, bestselling author of Calling Me Home This book is a monumental achievement, and Gwin is a fiercely talented writer. --Jaimee Wriston Colbert, author of Wild Things 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. [...] I couldn't put this novel down, and I don't think you'll want to either. --Jonis Agee, bestselling author of The River Wife

Lyrically precise, taut, and realistic, Promise kept me absorbed from beginning to end. --Julie Kibler, bestselling author of Calling Me Home This book is a monumental achievement, and Gwin is a fiercely talented writer. --Jaimee Wriston Colbert, author of Wild Things 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. [...] I couldn't put this novel down, and I don't think you'll want to either. --Jonis Agee, bestselling author of The River Wife

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Minrose Gwin is a writer, scholar, and educator. Her most recent books are a novel, The Queen of Palmyra, and a memoir, Wishing for Snow. She lives in Chapel Hill, NC, and teaches literature and creative writing at the University of North Carolina and fiction and creative nonfiction workshops at the University of New Mexico Taos Writers Conference. Minrose has been a writer all of her working life, starting out as a newspaper and wire service reporter and working in Mobile, Atlanta, Nashville, and Knoxville.

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