Blessings
Subtitle: a novel
By: Anna Quindlen.
Edition: Random House trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780812969818
Subjects: Ex-convicts -- Fiction.; Foundlings -- Fiction.; Women landowners -- Fiction.; Legacies -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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."