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St. Martin's Press
August 2014
On Sale: August 12, 2014
320 pages
ISBN: 1250040523
EAN: 9781250040527
Kindle: B00I703OQ2
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From debut novelist Martha Woodroof comes an inspiring tale
of a small-town college professor, a remarkable new woman at
the bookshop, and the ten-year old son he never knew he had. Tom Putnam has resigned himself to a quiet and
half-fulfilled life. An English professor in a sleepy
college town, he spends his days browsing the Shakespeare
shelves at the campus bookstore, managing the oddball
faculty in his department and caring, alongside his
formidable mother-in-law, for his wife Marjory, a fragile
shut-in with unrelenting neuroses, a condition exacerbated
by her discovery of Tom’s brief and misguided affair with a
visiting poetess a decade earlier. Then, one evening at the bookstore, Tom and Marjory meet
Rose Callahan, the shop's charming new hire, and Marjory
invites Rose to their home for dinner, out of the blue, her
first social interaction since her breakdown. Tom wonders if
it’s a sign that change is on the horizon, a feeling
confirmed upon his return home, where he opens a letter from
his former paramour, informing him he'd fathered a son who
is heading Tom's way on a train. His mind races at the
possibility of having a family after so many years of
loneliness. And it becomes clear change is coming whether
Tom’s ready or not. A heartwarming story with a charmingly imperfect cast of
characters to cheer for, Small Blessings's
wonderfully optimistic heart that reminds us that sometimes,
when it feels like life has veered irrevocably off track,
the track shifts in ways we never can have imagined.
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