Promise Binding:Paperback the prose is full of

the prose is full of imagery

on the cusp of adulthood

coming to think of The Berenstain Bears as her first American friends

We can't choose what we inherit

Promise Binding:Paperback the prose is full ofTwo Black sisters growing up in small town New England fight to protect their home, their bodies, and their dreams as the Civil Rights Movement sweeps the nation in Promise, a magical, magnificent novel (Marlon James) from a startlingly fresh voice (Jacqueline Woodson). A KIRKUS REVIEWS AND CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR The people of Salt Point could indeed be fearful about the world beyond themselves; most of them would be born and die