Description

Benefits, the best-selling book by the writer of Black and Blue, One True Thing, Object Lessons, and A Brief Guide to a Happy Life, starts when, late during the night, a teenage couple drives as much as the estate-owned by Lydia Blessing and leaves a package. In this instant, the planet of the property named Blessings is changed forever. The story of Skip Cuddy, the Blessings nanny, who finds an infant asleep because box and decides he really wants to keep her, and of matriarch Lydia Blessing, who, for her own reasons, decides to simply help him, Blessings examines the way the strategies of yesteryear influence decisions and lives in our; why is an individual, a life, legitimate or illegitimate, and who decides; the initial resources people find in themselves and in a residential area. It is a powerful story of love, redemption, and personal change by the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer about whom The Washington Post Book World said, “Quindlen understands that the items we ever is likely to be are available in certain forgotten fragment of family.”