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Traveling with Pomegranates

A Mother-Daughter Story

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Traveling with Pomegranates

By: Sue Monk Kidd, Ann Kidd Taylor
Narrated by: Sue Monk Kidd
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An introspective and beautiful dual memoir by the #1 New York Times bestselling novelist and her daughter. Look out for Ann Kidd Taylor's new novel, The Shark Club, which will be published in June 2017. 

Sue 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 an array of inspiring figures and sites, they also each give voice to that most protean of connections: the bond of mother and daughter.

A wise and involving book about feminine thresholds, spiritual growth, and renewal, Traveling with Pomegranates is both a revealing self-portrait by a beloved author and her daughter, a writer in the making, and a momentous story that will resonate with women everywhere.©2009 Sue Monk Kidd; (P)2009 Penguin
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Praise for Traveling with Pomegranates:

“Thoughtful, honest, and uplifting.”The Los Angeles Times

“Any mother or daughter would enjoy or relate to the touching struggle of developing a close relationship as adult women.” The Associated Press

“Read this one as a memoir, a travelogue and as a self-renewal book” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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