Full name: Blessings: A Novel

Author: Anna Quindlen Year: 2002 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Contemporary Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780812969818 9780345468697 0812969812 0345468694

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, "Quindlen knows that all the things we ever will be can be found in some forgotten fragment of family." Similar books: Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen Every Last One by Anna Quindlen Alternate Side by Anna Quindlen Memoir from Antproof Case by Mark Helprin May We Be Forgiven by A. M. Homes Morgan's Passing by Anne Tyler The Clock Winder by Anne Tyler The Ice Storm by Rick Moody The Sands of Time by Sidney Sheldon Looking for Mr. Goodbar by Judith Rossner Affliction by Russell Banks Mohawk by Richard Russo Celestial Navigation by Anne Tyler You Remind Me of Me by Dan Chaon Room Temperature by Nicholson Baker Aloft by Chang-Rae Lee The Steep Approach to Garbadale by Iain Banks If Morning Ever Comes by Anne Tyler Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver