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  • The Mermaid Chair

  • By: Sue Monk Kidd
  • Narrated by: Eliza Foss
  • Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
  • 3.2 out of 5 stars (5 ratings)

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The Mermaid Chair

By: Sue Monk Kidd
Narrated by: Eliza Foss
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From the acclaimed and worldwide best-selling author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention of Wings

Jessie Sullivan has been married half her life, and has become accustomed to her role. But when she returns to the isolated island where she grew up to establish why her mother has been behaving oddly, she is to find a lot more than she came looking for.

A loving, exuberant character, who believes herself to be happy, she has forgotten a hidden part of her spirit - the part represented by the beautiful, vibrant and legendary mermaid carved on a chair in the island's monastery. When Jessie falls passionately in love with a monk who is close to taking his final vows, she discovers a place in herself that she had never previously imagined could exist.

The Mermaid Chair is the story of a woman trying to save her outgrown life - the roles, identities, securities and illusions she had created for herself - before finally emerging as something far more alive and powerful.

©2005 Sue Monk Kidd (P)2005 Penguin Audio
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"The author mixes a cocktail of myth, spiritual concerns and sexual yearning, and her descriptions of the island landscape are lush and detailed" ( The Sunday Times)

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This book just drew me in, not entirely sure, it was just very well written and I enjoyed the distinctly Southern flavor.

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