Small Blessings: A Novel

A small-town college professor meets the ten-year-old son he never knew he had: "This warm, wise tale leaves a smile long after the final page is turned." —People

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 ...