The Promise: A Novel Cultural 85 lbs) 96 pages

85 lbs) 96 pages

Seventeen-year-old Avery Anderson is convinced her senior year is ruined when she's uprooted from her life in DC and forced into the hostile home of her terminally ill grandmother

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The Promise: A Novel Cultural 85 lbs) 96 pagesby Damon Galgut WINNER OF THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS CHOICE On her deathbed, Rachel Swart makes a promise to Salome, the familys Black maid. This promise will divide the familyespecially her children: Anton, the golden boy; Astrid, whose beauty is her power; and the youngest, Amor, whose life is shaped by feelings of guilt. Reunited by four funerals over thirty years, the dwindling Swart family remains haunted by the unmet promise,