Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

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	• Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story Sue Monk Kidd, Ann Kidd Taylor Viking Adult, 2009 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 27 reviews view larger image
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Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

I bought this for my daughter because we are traveling to Greece together this summer and because she also expected to easily get into a Masters program and did not. She loved this book, although she cried through the middle of it because the author so clearly reflected exactly what she is feeling.

"Pomegranates" Touched and Stole My Heart

This is a wonderful book that will slowly weave its magic on the reader. I'm closer now to 60, but I can well remember all the angst that accompanies turning 50. And, having known individuals suffering from Depression, Ann's story was accurate and moving. One cannot shake off Depresssion as if it were an inconvenient cold. Both Sue and Ann spoke bravely and eloquently about their life passages. It could just as easily been a coffee table book about their fascinating travels. Instead, the authors used the sacred sites visited to journal, pray and verbalize their heart's desires. Bravo!
As an aside, I can't believe the cynicism of the reviewers who suggested that the book was just a ploy of Ms. Kidd's to get her daughter's work published. Really?

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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.

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