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The Mermaid Chair: The No. 1 New York Times bestseller

The Mermaid Chair: The No. 1 New York Times bestseller

by SueMonkKidd (Author)

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    Paperback 2006

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Synopsis

THE MERMAID CHAIR is a No. 1 New York Times bestseller from Sue Monk Kidd: 'Highly charged...full of sexual and spiritual desire. Every bit as moving and convincing as The Secret Life of Bees' Mirror In her forties, and married for half her life, Jessie Sullivan honestly believes that she is happy. She has a lovely home, a dependable husband and an accomplished and adored teenage daughter. But when shocking news about her mother compels Jessie to visit the island where she grew up, she finds herself drawn to Brother Thomas, a Benedictine monk on the verge of taking his final vows. Amidst the seductive beauty of the South Carolina salt marshes, Jessie is torn between powerful new longings and her enduring marriage. After all these years she is finally beginning to understand who she really is and where she belongs. But she has still to discover how much of her old life has a place in the new one.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 416
 Edition: New e.
 Publisher: Tinder Press
Published: 06 Mar 2006
ISBN 10: 0755307631
ISBN 13: 9780755307630
Book Overview: A powerful and emotionally charged story about a woman's struggle to reconcile different loves and different parts of her spirit

Media Reviews
Sex, an eccentric cast and flashes of the black humour lighten a mid-life meditation on the nature of love, loss and redemption * Scotsman *
Book clubs, start your engines. . . . [The Mermaid Chair] is a tapestry strengthened by bonds between women that bridge pain and loss * USA Today *
Her writing is so smart and sharp, she gives new life to old midlife crises, and she draws connections from the feminine to the divine to the erotic that a lesser writer wouldn't see, and might not have the guts to follow * Time *
Emotionally rich... full of sultry, magical descriptions of life in the South... sure to be another hit for Kidd * Publishers Weekly *
Compelling reading.... The writing is soulful in its probing of the human heart and family secrets * San Francisco Chronicle *
It's hard to put this book down for little things like sleeping and eating * Elle *
The novel has humour and a profound feeling for its primeval landscape of mud flats and salt creeks... [A] sensitively plotted emotional journey * Time Out *

A highly charged tale full of sexual and spiritual desire. Every bit as moving and convincing as The Secret Life of Bees

* Mirror *
Author Bio

Sue Monk Kidd is the author of three novels, all of which have been international bestsellers: The Secret Life Of Bees, The Mermaid Chair and The Invention Of Wings. The Secret Life Of Bees spent two years on the New York Times bestseller list, was long-listed for the Orange Prize, and was turned into an award-winning film. The Mermaid Chair and The Invention of Wings were both No. 1 New York Times bestsellers. Sue is also the author of several acclaimed non-fiction books including Travelling with Pomegranates, which she co-wrote with her daughter Ann Kidd Taylor.

Sue lives in Florida with her husband Sandy.

www.suemonkkidd.com
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