Small blessings
(Book)
Tom Putnam, an English professor at a Virginia women's college, has resigned himself to a quiet and half-fulfilled life. For more than ten years, his wife Marjory has been a shut-in, a fragile and frigid woman whose neuroses have left her fully dependent on Tom and his formidable mother-in-law, Agnes Tattle. Tom considers his unhappy condition self-inflicted, since Marjory's condition was exacerbated by her discovery of Tom's brief and misguided affair with a visiting poetess. But when Tom and Marjory meet Rose Callahan, the campus bookstore's charming new hire, and Marjory invites Rose to dinner, her first social interaction in a decade, Tom wonders if it's a sign that change is on the horizon. And when Tom returns home that evening to a letter from the poetess telling him that he'd fathered her son, Henry, and that Henry, now ten, will arrive by train in a few days, it's clear change is coming whether Tom's ready or not.
Notes
Woodroof, M. (2015). Small blessings. First Picador edition. New York, NY, Picador.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Woodroof, Martha, 1947-. 2015. Small Blessings. New York, NY, Picador.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Woodroof, Martha, 1947-, Small Blessings. New York, NY, Picador, 2015.
MLA Citation (style guide)Woodroof, Martha. Small Blessings. First Picador edition. New York, NY, Picador, 2015.
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