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Book Review of The Mermaid Chair

The Mermaid Chair
The Mermaid Chair
Author: Sue Monk Kidd
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Hardcover
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Inside the church of a Benedictine monastery on Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a sain who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion.

The Mermaid Chair is a vivdly imagined novel about mermaids and saints, about passions of the spirit and the ecstasies of the body. It illuminates the awakening of a woman to her own deepest self with a btilliance and power only a writer of Kidd's ability could conjure.