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Traveling with Pomegranates

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

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

A Mother-Daughter Story

By Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor

By Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor

By Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor

By Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor

By Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor
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By Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor
Read by Sue Monk Kidd

Paperback $17.00

Sep 07, 2010 | 304 Pages

Ebook $13.99

Sep 08, 2009 | 304 Pages

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Sep 08, 2009 | 540 Minutes

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    About Traveling with Pomegranates

    The New York Times bestselling memoir of pilgrimage and metamorphosis by the author of The Secret Life of Bees and her daughter, Ann Kidd Taylor.

    Sue Monk Kidd has touched the hearts of millions of readers with her beloved novels and acclaimed nonfiction. Now, in this wise and engrossing dual memoir, she and her daughter, Ann, chronicle their travels together through Greece and France at a time when each was on a quest to redefine herself and rediscover each other.

    As Sue struggles to enlarge a vision of swarming bees into a novel, and Ann ponders the classic question of what to do with her life, this modern-day Demeter and Persephone explore an array of inspiring figures and sacred sites. They also give voice to that most protean of human connections: the bond of mothers and daughters.

    About Traveling with Pomegranates

    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.

    About Traveling with Pomegranates

    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.

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    About Sue Monk Kidd

    Sue Monk Kidd is the award-winning and bestselling author of the novels The Secret Life of Bees and The Mermaid Chair. She has also… More about Sue Monk Kidd

    About Ann Kidd Taylor

    Ann Kidd Taylor is a graduate of Columbia College in South Carolina. She has published articles and essays in Skirt!… More about Ann Kidd Taylor

    About Sue Monk Kidd

    Sue Monk Kidd is the award-winning and bestselling author of the novels The Secret Life of Bees and The Mermaid Chair. She has also… More about Sue Monk Kidd

    About Ann Kidd Taylor

    Ann Kidd Taylor is a graduate of Columbia College in South Carolina. She has published articles and essays in Skirt!… More about Ann Kidd Taylor

    About Sue Monk Kidd

    Sue Monk Kidd is the award-winning and bestselling author of the novels The Secret Life of Bees and The Mermaid Chair. She has also… More about Sue Monk Kidd

    About Ann Kidd Taylor

    Ann Kidd Taylor is a graduate of Columbia College in South Carolina. She has published articles and essays in Skirt!… More about Ann Kidd Taylor

    Product Details

    Category: Biography & Memoir | Parenting

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Sep 07, 2010 | 304 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780143117971

    Category: Biography & Memoir | Parenting

    Ebook | $13.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Sep 08, 2009 | 304 Pages | ISBN 9781101144916

    Category: Biography & Memoir | Parenting | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $20.00
    Published by Penguin Audio
    Sep 08, 2009 | 540 Minutes | ISBN 9781101079546

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    Praise

    “A touching rapprochement between mother and daughter.”—Kirkus Reviews

    “A return trip in 2000 finds both women changed, and a 2008 afterword roundsout this stunning account of inner journeys, separate and intertwined.”—Booklist

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

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