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."