Ocean House Author Series: Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg
Date and Time
Monday Jul 1, 2024
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM EDT
Monday, July 1
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Location
Seaside Ballroom
Ocean House | 1 Bluff Avenue | Watch Hill, RI
Fees/Admission
$45/person
(plus tax & service charge)
Description
Summer Author Series: Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg
Join us as Ocean House owner and author, Deborah Goodrich Royce moderates a conversation with our featured author. This week, author Jeanne McWlliams Blasberg will be discussing (and signing) her latest novel: Daughter of a Promise. Refreshments will be served, including wine and light bites!
Please note, tickets purchased for this event are non-refundable. A copy of their book, from Bank Square Books, is included in the cost of the ticket.
About Daughter of a Promise: Days after graduation, Betsabe´ Ruiz’s life in New York is turning out to be nothing less than cinematic. Although her first job at a white-shoe, Wall Street investment bank is the opportunity of a lifetime, she is not prepared for the magnitude of wealth swirling about her, the long hours and close quarters that infuse her professional relationships with intimacy, nor an unexpected attraction to her boss. And like all great films, Betsabe´’s New York dream comes with a twist that challenges her to find a balance between where she came from and where she’s going.
Narrated in the retrospective as a letter of wisdom to her unborn son, Daughter of a Promise captures not only Betsabe´’s coming of age but also her journey to understand that deep-seated forces such as desire and love are more complicated than she ever could have imagined.
About Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg: 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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