false 72427791 993611 6429219 0670021202 9780670021208 139 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/64/219/6429219-m-1255575210.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/64/219/6429219-s-1255575210.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6429219-traveling-with-pomegranates 3.41 316 An introspective and beautiful dual memoir by the #1 New York Times bestselling novelist and her daughter

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.]]> 4711 3.74 176778 16469 2914471 3.41 321 142 2009 4 0 false Fri Sep 25 01:29:08 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 14:34:04 -0700 2009 Here Sue gives the reader a look on the events and processes of her writing of 'The Secret Life of Bees'. That was fascinating!]]>