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Format: Paperback, Paperback
Publisher: Random House Inc
Published: Aug 2003
Genre: Fiction - General
Retail Price: $19.00
Pages: 237
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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