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The Promise: A Novel YA_Gift_Guide and always complicatedOver 50,000 sold! From the author of The Personal History of Rachel DuPree (soon to be a major motion picture)! Shades of Willa Cather, Sinclair Lewis, and Conrad Richter.Publishers Weekly, starred review Young pianist Catherine Wainwright flees the fashionable town of Dayton, Ohio, in the wake of a terrible scandal. Heartbroken and facing destitution, she finds herself striking up correspondence with a childhood admirer, the recently widowed Oscar