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By Sue Monk Kidd

Contained in the abbey of a Benedictine monastery on tiny Egret Island, simply off the coast of South Carolina, is living a gorgeous and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and devoted to a saint who, legend claims, was once a mermaid sooner than her conversion. Jessie Sullivan’s traditional existence has been “molded to the smallest area possible.” So while she is termed domestic to deal with her mother’s startling and enigmatic act of violence, Jessie reveals herself relieved to be except her husband, Hugh. Jessie loves Hugh, yet on Egret Island—amid the beautiful marshlands and tidal creeks—she turns into attracted to Brother Thomas, a monk who's mere months from taking his ultimate vows. What transpires will liberate the roots of her mother’s tormented earlier, yet so much of all, as Jessie grapples with the stress of wish and the fight to disclaim it, she is going to discover a freedom that feels overwhelmingly correct.
What evokes the craving for a soul mate? Few writers have explored, as Kidd does, the luxurious, unknown sector of the female soul the place the skinny line among the non secular and the erotic exists. The Mermaid Chair is a vividly imagined novel in regards to the passions of the spirit and the ecstasies of the physique; one who illuminates a woman’s self-awakening with the brilliance and gear that just a author of Kidd’s skill may conjure.

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The longhead looked at the dwarf, looked up at the sky, and then slapped the woman in the face before running off past Tommy and Jake, almost knocking them down. “Jesus Christ, man. ” Jake took out a pack of cigarettes. ” “Orson Welles in that movie Touch of Evil. ” “No, I don’t think I have. ” He took a drag and blew the smoke upwards, looking at the stars in the process. “Okay, well I’m still worried about Peachy. Do we go to a phone and call Aaron like you wanted? I think we should just get the hell out of town for a few days.

Jake was relieved when he finally saw his partner turn around and walk in his direction. They walked past the popcorn girl who was now smearing a melted chocolate bar on her hands. “I told you. You can’t go in there,” she said, not looking up from her hands. Tommy and Jake ignored her and went into their theatre. As soon as they walked in, they were shocked by how cold it was. Though it was freezing outside, there was no heat in the theatre. Goosebumps appeared immediately on their skin even under their coats.

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