Blessings - Softcover

Quindlen, Anna

3.63

18,480 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345468694 ISBN 13: 9780345468697

Publisher: Fawcett Books, 2004

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Late one night, a teenage couple drives up to the big white clapboard home on the Blessing estate and leaves a box. In that instant, the lives of those who live and work there are changed forever. Skip Cuddy, the caretaker, finds a baby girl asleep in that box and decides he wants to keep the child . . . while Lydia Blessing, the matriarch of the estate, for her own reasons, agrees to help him. Blessings explores how the secrets of the past affect decisions and lives in the present; what makes a person or a life legitimate or illegitimate and who decides; and 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, �€œQuindlen knows that all the things we ever will be can be found in some forgotten fragment of family.�€

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Review:

" A polished gem of a novel...lovingly crafted, beautifully written."
-- The Miami Herald
" A well-told story of love and redemption."
-- The Washington Post Book World
" [A] richly imagined novel of the transforming power of love."
-- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
" Readers...will be rewarded by a story they cannot put down."
-- BookPage

A polished gem of a novel...lovingly crafted, beautifully written.
The Miami Herald
A well-told story of love and redemption.
The Washington Post Book World
[A] richly imagined novel of the transforming power of love.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Readers...will be rewarded by a story they cannot put down.
BookPage"

"A polished gem of a novel...lovingly crafted, beautifully written."
--The Miami Herald

"A well-told story of love and redemption."
--The Washington Post Book World

"[A] richly imagined novel of the transforming power of love."
--St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Readers...will be rewarded by a story they cannot put down."
--BookPage

From the Publisher:

In the bestselling tradition of Anne Tyler, Blessings explores the power of love as a catalyst for change and redemption.

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