Traveling with pomegranates

a mother daughter story

English language

Published Oct. 12, 2009 by Viking.

ISBN:
978-0-670-02120-8
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OCLC Number:
433608007

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An introspective and beautiful dual memoir by the #1 New York Times bestselling novelist and her daughterSue Monk Kidd has touched millions of readers with her novels The Secret Life of Bees and The Mermaid Chair and with her acclaimed nonfiction. In this intimate dual memoir, she and her daughter, Ann, offer distinct perspectives as a fifty-something and a twenty-something, each on a quest to redefine herself and to rediscover each other.Between 1998 and 2000, Sue and Ann travel throughout Greece and France. Sue, coming to grips with aging, caught in a creative vacuum, longing to reconnect with her grown daughter, struggles to enlarge a vision of swarming bees into a novel. Ann, just graduated from college, heartbroken and benumbed by the classic question about what to do with her life, grapples with a painful depression. As this modern-day Demeter and Persephone chronicle the richly symbolic and personal meaning of …

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Subjects

  • Kidd, Sue Monk -- Travel -- Greece
  • Kidd, Sue Monk -- Family
  • Taylor, Ann Kidd
  • Mothers and daughters -- United States
  • Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography