Blessings by Anna Quindlen Paperback Book

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Rent Blessings

Author: Anna Quindlen

Format: Mass Market Paperback

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Published: Aug 2003

Genre: Fiction - General

Retail Price: $7.99

Pages: 304

Synopsis

Lydia Blessing is 80 years old, and her mind drifts into the past of her impeccably WASP-y family--a past that includes her miserably married parents, her gay brother who committed suicide, her own bad marriage, and a strain of Jewish blood. Lydia figures her life is essentially over. And then she finds a baby on her doorstep....

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