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Daughter of a Promise
- Narrator
- Veronica Pace
- Publisher
- Silverton Agency
- Publish Date
- 2 April 2024
- Run Time
- 9 hours 53 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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.
A modern retelling of the legend of Bathsheba and David, this novel is a reminder that the biological forces of desire and love are timeless and complicated.
Critics Review
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“This is a wonderfully wise book…A sagacious and graceful modern-day retelling of a biblical love story.”
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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“A powerful feminist novel set during a tumultuous year in New York.”
Foreword Reviews
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“A unique and inherently fascinating novel that will hold immense interest to fans of cultural heritage fiction, women’s fiction, and coming of age stories…[The] distinctive style of narrative-driven storytelling fully engages her reader’s total attention from start to finish.”
Midwest Book Review
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Details
- Author
- Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg
- Narrator
- Veronica Pace
- Duration
- 9 hours 53 minutes
- Release Date
- 2 April 2024
- ISBN
- 9798874713096
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Silverton Agency
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary, Fiction: general and literary, Romance
Synopsis
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.A modern retelling of the legend of Bathsheba and David, this novel is a reminder that the biological forces of desire and love are timeless and complicated.
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