Blessings (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780812969818)

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."

Author: Anna Quindlen
ISBN-10: 0812969812
ISBN-13: 9780812969818
Publisher: Random House Trade
Language: English
Published: 08/19/2003
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 8.16h x 5.08w x 0.70d

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


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 09/14/2003 pg. 28
Kliatt 01/01/2004 pg. 19

About the Author
Anna Quindlen is the author of three previous novels (Object Lessons, One True Thing, Black and Blue), and four nonfiction books (A Short Guide to a Happy Life, Living Out Loud, Thinking Out Loud, How Reading Changed My Life). She has also written two children's books (The Tree That Came to Stay, Happily Ever After). Her New York Times column "Public & Private" won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992. Her column now appears every other week in Newsweek.