Daughter of a Promise

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About Daughter of a Promise

Title: Daughter of a Promise

Author: Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg

Release Date: April 2, 2024

Find it: Amazon

Days after graduating from college, Betsabé Ruiz begins her first job on Wall Street, where she plans to save enough money to eventually pursue her dreams of becoming a theatre actress. What she didn’t anticipate was that this job would allow her barely enough free time to sleep or hang out with friends, let alone take acting classes. She didn’t apprehend the magnitude of the wealth that would be swirling about her, either, or how the long hours and close quarters would infuse her professional relationships with intimacy. Still, she does her best to navigate this uncharted territory at work, where she makes an unlikely best friend and develops an unexpected attraction to her boss.

Told in the retrospective as a letter to her unborn son, Daughter of a Promise is a coming-of-age tale in which a naïve Betsabé assumed leaving her past behind was the prerequisite for succeeding as an adult. The wisdom she ultimately passes on to her child, however, is steeped in the very traditions within which her grandmother raised her back in Miami.

Praise for Daughter of a Promise

A true coming-of-age story wrapped up in the biblical retelling of David and Bathsheba. At first, I thought who retells the bible? In the end, the story brought a century’s old story to the present day, with relatable situations and hardships. I love this concept and hope the author continues to bring biblical stories to life. Let’s face it, we make bad choices all the time – and adulting isn’t all is cracked up to be. I was enthralled by how the author brought all the pieces together in a powerful story that resonates.

“Daughter of a Promise is a gripping story of love and ambition set in the high stakes world of investment banking. Jeanne Blasberg tells a story that is both timeless and of the moment—and in Betsabé Ruiz, she has created a heroine worth rooting for.” —Daisy Alpert Florin, author of My Last Innocent Year

“Daughter of a Promise a spirited and deep soul. Once more Blasberg trains her acute eye on the beauty, joy, and difficulty of familial love. Her latest novel is both timeless and thoroughly modern.” —Ivy Pochoda, author of Sing Her Down and These Women

“A stunning reminder of the enduring nature of love and desire. With richly drawn characters, the novel is a beautiful coming-of-age tale that lays bare the complexities of life and the push to pursue one’s dreams. A must read.” —Rachel Barenbaum, author of A Bend in the Stars and Atomic Anna

“In this retelling of an ancient story—with gleaming office towers and stately mansions asits backdrop—Blasberg stands current cultural tropes on their head and masterfully invites us to examine the only power that really matters, our human capacity to learn, grow, nurture, and forgive…I loved this book.” —Katherine A. Sherbrooke, author of Leaving Coy’s Hill and The Hidden Life of Aster Kelly

It Just Keeps Getting Better

“Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg launches us into a journey of discovery in this beautifully written novel taken out of the pages of the Bible and given new life through the artistry of her magnificent storytelling.” —Rabbi Elaine Zecher, Senior Rabbi of Temple Israel, Boston

“Worth savoring . . . and coming back to read again and again.” —David Hirshberg, author of My Mother’s Son and Jacobo’s Rainbow

“This is a novel that will remind you to be brave enough to listen to your own inner voice.”—Deborah Goodrich Royce, award-winning author of Reef Road, Ruby Falls, and Finding Mrs. Ford

“Daughter of a Promise brilliantly captures the intense pulls of love, ambition, and friendship for a young woman starting out in the world. As Betsabé navigates her place in New York after college graduation, she learns truths we all need to know about the balance between duty to others and duty to self. A powerful and tender coming-of-age story.” — Marjan Kamali, author of The Stationery Shop and Together Tea

About The Author

Jeanne Blasberg is an award-winning and bestselling author and essayist. Her novel The Nine (SWP 2019) was honored with the 2019 Foreword Indies Gold Award in Thriller & Suspense and the Gold Medal and Juror’s Choice in the 2019 National Indie Excellence Awards, among others. Eden (SWP 2017), her debut, won the Benjamin Franklin Silver Award for Best New Voice in Fiction and was a finalist for the Sarton Women’s Book Award for Historical Fiction.

A Smith College graduate, Jeanne is both a teacher of writing and a lifetime learner who serves on the boards of the Boston Book Festival and GrubStreet.She reviews contemporary fiction for the New York Journal of Books and was named a Southampton Writer’s Conference BookEnds Fellow in April 2021. She splits her time between Park City, Utah, and a regenerative farm in Verona, Wisconsin.

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