Blessings

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Blessings, the bestselling novel by the author of Black and Blue, One True Thing, Object Lessons, and A Short Guide to a Happy Life, begins when, late at night, a teenage couple drives up to the estate owned by Lydia Blessing and leaves a box.

In this instant, the world of the estate called Blessings is changed forever. The story of Skip Cuddy, the Blessings caretaker, who finds a baby asleep in that box and decides he wants to keep her, and of matriarch Lydia Blessing, who, for her own reasons, decides to help him, Blessings explores how the secrets of the past affect decisions and lives in the present; what makes a person, a life, legitimate or illegitimate, and who decides; the unique resources people find in themselves and in a community. This is a powerful novel of love, redemption, and personal change by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer about whom The Washington Post Book World said, "Quindlen knows that all the things we ever will be can be found in some forgotten fragment of family."

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Trade
Published: 08/19/2003
ISBN: 9780812969818
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 8.16h x 5.08w x 0.70d

Review Citations: New York Times 09/14/2003 pg. 28
Kliatt 01/01/2004 pg. 19

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 65578 / Blessings
Reading Level: 6.3 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 13