Traveling withPomegranates Hardback - 2009

by Kidd, Sue Monk; Taylor, Ann Kidd

An introspectiveand beautiful dualmemoir by the #1New York Timesbestselling novelistand her daughter

Sue Monk Kidd has touched millions of readers with her novelsThe Secret Life of Bees and The Mermaid Chair and with heracclaimed nonfiction. In this intimate dual memoir, she and herdaughter, Ann, offer distinct perspectives as a fifty-something anda twenty-something, each on a quest to redefine herself and torediscover each other.

Between 1998 and 2000, Sue and Ann travel throughout Greeceand France. Sue, coming to grips with aging, caught in a creativevacuum, longing to reconnect with her grown daughter, strugglesto enlarge a vision of swarming bees into a novel. Ann, justgraduated from college, heartbroken and benumbed by the classicquestion about what to do with her life, grapples with a painfuldepression. As this modern-day Demeter and Persephone chroniclethe richly symbolic and personal meaning of an array of inspiringfigures and sites, they also each give voice to that most proteanof connections: the bond of mother and daughter.

A wise and involving book about feminine thresholds, spiritualgrowth, and renewal, Traveling with Pomegranates is both arevealing self-portrait by a beloved author and her daughter, awriter in the making, and a momentous story that will resonatewith women everywhere.