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Jan 1, 2004 · The Mermaid Chair spent 24 weeks on the New York Times hardcover bestseller list, reaching the #1 position, and spent 22 weeks on the New York Times trade paperback list. The novel won the Nation Quill Award and was made into the television movie.
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May 5, 2021 · Inside the abbey of a Benedictine monastery on tiny Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion.
Jessie Sullivan is summoned home to tiny Egret Island, where she meets Brother Thomas, a monk who is about to take his final vows, and encounters the legend of a mysterious chair dedicated to a saint who had originally been a mermaid. NY times bestseller list, hardcover fiction, 2005. NO LONGER ON THE LIST AS OF 11-13-2005!
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• Published by Viking, 2005 • # 1 New York Times Bestseller • Winner of the Quill Award for General Fiction Inside the church of a Benedictine monastery on Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her c...
"Kidd has a flair for making us see her characters with great vividness and immediacy." —New York Times Book Review "Kidd's imagination, originality and command of language never cease. She is simply a profound storyteller.” —The Denver Post "Rewarding… Kidd achieves a bold intensity and complexity that wasn't possible in The Secret Life of Bees, n...
Chapter One February 17, 1988, I opened my eyes and heard a procession of sounds: first the phone going off on the opposite side of the bed, rousing us at 5:04 a.m. to what could only be a calamity, then rain pummeling the roof of our old Victorian house, sluicing its sneaky way to the basement, and finally small puffs of air coming from Hugh’s low...
Mar 7, 2006 · The Mermaid Chair: A Novel. Sue Monk Kidd. Penguin, Mar 7, 2006 - Fiction - 368 pages. A transcendent tale of a woman's self-discovery—the New York Times–bestselling second work of fiction by...
Mar 7, 2006 · The Mermaid Chair is a vividly imagined novel about the passions of the spirit and the ecstasies of the body; one that illuminates a woman's self-awakening with the brilliance and power that only a writer of Kidd's ability could conjure. Discussion Guide. How does a woman like Jessie become "molded to the smallest space possible"?
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Amid a rich community of unforgettable island women and the exotic beauty of marshlands, tidal creeks, and majestic egrets, Jessie grapples with the tension of desire and the struggle to deny it, with a freedom that feels overwhelmingly right, and with the immutable force of home and marriage.
