Small Blessings: A Novel BOTY_2025 ”—Joel Richard Paul • “Excellent

”—Joel Richard Paul • “Excellent

Black women learned to rise

Paul Cézanne

is hired by a young woman (Hana Sugisaki) to avenge the death of her father

Small Blessings: A Novel BOTY_2025 ”—Joel Richard Paul • “ExcellentA REMARKABLE NEW WOMAN AT THE COLLEGE BOOKSHOP HELPS A PROFESSORAND THE SON HE NEVER KNEW HE HADREALIZE LIFE'S SMALL BLESSINGSTom 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 his department's oddball faculty, and caring for his wife Marjory, a fragile shut in with unrelenting neuroses, a condition