Kirkus Reviews (review date 1 September 2002)
SOURCE: Review of Blessings, by Anna Quindlen. Kirkus Reviews 70, no. 17 (1 September 2002): 1258.
[In the following review, the critic provides a lukewarm assessment of Quindlen's Blessings.]
[Blessings is the] fourth adult novel from Newsweek columnist Quindlen (Black and Blue, 1998, etc.), a story of lost souls redeemed by love.
A friend of Lydia Blessing once told her that there was a secret at the heart of every family and—predictably—it's revealed...
Source: Contemporary Literary Criticism, ©2004 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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