“A modern retelling of the legend of Bathsheba and David, Daughter of a Promise is a reminder that the biological forces of desire and love are timeless and complicated.” — Jeanne
Days after graduation, Betsabé Ruiz’s life in New York is turning out to be nothing less than cinematic. Her first job at a white shoe firm on Wall Street is the chance of a lifetime, but she wasn’t prepared for the magnitude of the wealth swirling about her, or how the long hours and close quarters would infuse her professional relationships with intimacy. And like all great films, Betsabé’s New York dream comes with a twist that challenges her to question her assumptions and find the balance between where she comes from and where she’s going.
“I set out to write a novel about a mother and her son, inspired by the story of Hannah in the Book of Samuel. It developed into a tale greatly colored by the recent revelations on many educational campuses in the United States. Misconduct and betrayal are nothing new, unfortunate themes in life as well as literature, but seem to be dominating the public discourse. The Nine is a modern mother/child telling. It weaves together the yearnings of a highly involved woman with the inevitable rupture in a relationship with her teenage son as he enters a world she wanted for him, a world of prestige and tradition.” — Jeanne
When well-meaning helicopter mom, Hannah Webber, enrolls her brilliant son and the center of her world, Sam, into the boarding school of her dreams, neither of them is prepared for what awaits: an illicit underworld where decades of privileged conspiracy threaten not only Sam but also his fragile family.
“Eden is one woman’s story, echoing four women’s’ stories, and is, at the same time, all women’s story. It creates a collage of female experience around the drama of introducing Becca’s long lost daughter and her impending financial despair. Determined to write the type of book I enjoy reading, my novel weaves together multiple points of view and chronologies. I hope you love it.” — Jeanne
As her children and grandchildren assemble for the Fourth of July weekend at Eden, the Meister family’s grand summer cottage on the Rhode Island shore, Becca decides it’s time to introduce the daughter she gave up for adoption fifty years ago.
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“I am honored to participate in this important collection alongside such esteemed fellow writers.” — Jeanne
An intimate and hopeful collection of meaningful, smart, funny, sad, emotional, and inspiring essays from today’s authors and advocates about what it means to be Jewish, how life has changed since the attacks on October 7th, 2023, and the unique culture that brings this group together.
“Motherhood has been a perennial theme of my writing so I’m delighted to be included in this essential and deeply relevant collection.” — Jeanne
Too tired to think? No time to read books? Zibby Owens gets it. Award-winning podcaster of Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books and mother of four (ages six to fourteen) compiled fifty-three essays by forty-nine authors to help the rest of us feel understood, inspired, and less alone. You’ll laugh, cry, think, and feel like you just had coffee with a close friend. If that best friend were a world-renowned author.
