Object Lessons (ISBN 9780394569659) is the first novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and journalist Anna Quindlen.
The family patriarch, John Scanlan, a conservative Irish man, has amassed a considerable fortune from manufacturing religious items like communion wafers and rosaries.
Attempting to bring Maggie's parents back into the fold, John offers Tommy a house near him in Westchester County, and the family moves there from The Bronx.
Quindlen's novel was generally praised by critics from The New York Times, The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, and Kirkus.
[4] Publishers Weekly likened the novel to the work of Mary Gordon, calling the book "empathetic and beautifully dimensional.