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The Mermaid Chair
by Sue Monk Kidd
May 2006
Synopsis
"A dazzling novel of passion and spirituality - the instant blockbuster bestseller from the author of The Secret Life of Bees.
Sue Monk Kidd’s phenomenal debut, The Secret Life of Bees, became a runaway bestseller that is still on the New York Times bestseller list more than two years after its paperback publication. Now, in her luminous new novel, Kidd has woven a transcendent tale that will thrill her legion of fans. Telling the story of Jessie Sullivan - a love story between a woman and a monk, a woman and her husband, and ultimately a woman and her own soul - Kidd charts a journey of awakening and self-discovery illuminated with a brilliance that only a writer of her ability could conjure."
Reviews
- "Book clubs, start your engines... Dripping with vivid images of hot Southern afternoons... The Mermaid Chair is a tapestry strengthened by bonds between women that bridge pain and loss." (USA Today)
- "Kidd has a flair for making us see her characters with great vividness and immediacy." (New York Times Book Review)
- "If The Secret Life of Bees was a girl's coming-of-age novel, The Mermaid Chair is a woman's coming-of-middle-age novel... The prose thrilled me... magnificent." (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Book Club Rating and Comments
This book would be a good beach read. Entertaining, but a bit too much like a romance novel.
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Other Books by Sue Monk Kidd
- The Secret Life of Bees