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Sue Monk Kidd

Author of The Invention of Wings

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Traveling with Pomegranates
A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France

Overview

  • Published by Viking, 2009
  • New York Times Bestseller
  • Co-authored with Sue’s daughter, Ann Kidd Taylor

In this wise and engrossing dual memoir, Sue Monk Kidd and her daughter Ann chronicle their travels together through Greece, Turkey, and France at a time when each was on a quest to redefine herself and rediscover one another.

Sue, newly aware of aging and caught in a creative vacuum, struggles to enlarge a vision of swarming bees into a novel and to navigate the threshold into her fifties. Ann, heartbroken and lost, grapples with the classic question of what to do with her life. In voices candid and lyrical, this modern-day Demeter and Persephone explore a rich array of inspiring figures and sacred sites in Athens, Eleusis, Paris, Ephesus, Rocamadour, and places in between. They also give voice to a moving transformation of that most protean of human connections: the bond of mothers and daughters.

 

 

Penguin Books
304 pages
$15.00
ISBN: 978-0143117971

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