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Author:

Kidd, Sue Monk.

Title:

The mermaid chair / Sue Monk Kidd.

Edition:

Doubleday large print home library ed.

Publisher:

Viking,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

xi, 488 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Benedictines--Fiction.
Married women--Fiction.
Catholic women.--Fiction.
Large type books.
Spiritual life.--Fiction.
Islands.--Fiction.
Monks.--Fiction.
South Carolina.--Fiction.
Religious fiction.
Love stories.

Summary:

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's conventional life has been "molded to the smallest space possible." So when she is called home to cope with her mother's startling and enigmatic act of violence, Jessie finds herself relieved to be apart from her husband, Hugh. Jessie loves Hugh, but on Egret Island-- amid the gorgeous marshlands and tidal creeks--she becomes drawn to Brother Thomas, a monk who is mere months from taking his final vows. What transpires will unlock the roots of her mother's tormented past, but most of all, as Jessie grapples with the tension of desire and the struggle to deny it, she will find a freedom that feels overwhelmingly right.

ISBN:

9780739452059 (lg. print)
0739452053 (lg. print)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)60562603

Locations:

YSPD232 -- Camanche Public Library (Camanche)

S1PD771 -- Johnston Public Library (Johnston)

NEPC953 -- Lake Mills Public Library (Lake Mills)

NTPC983 -- Northwood Public Library (Northwood)

BWPD851 -- Bertha Bartlett Public Library (Story City)

TRPE062 -- Vinton Public Library (Vinton)

DPPE403 -- Kendall Young Library (Webster City)