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A dazzling novel of passion and spiritualitythe instant blockbuster bestseller from the author of The Secret Life of Bees

Sue Monk Kidds phenomenal debut, The Secret Life of Bees , became a runaway bestseller that is still on the New York Times bestseller list more than two years after its paperback publication. Now, in her luminous new novel, Kidd has woven a transcendent tale that will thrill her legion of fans. Telling the story of Jessie Sullivana love story between a woman and a monk, a woman and her husband, and ultimately a woman and her own soulKidd charts a journey of awakening and self-discovery illuminated with a brilliance that only a writer of her ability could conjure.

Book clubs, start your engines. . . . [ The Mermaid Chair ] is a tapestry strengthened by bonds between women that bridge pain and loss.

USA Today

The pages all but turn themselves. Parade

Soulful in its probing of the human heart. San Francisco Chronicle

Kidd draws connections from the feminine to the divine to the erotic that a lesser writer wouldnt see, and might not have the guts to follow. Time

Its hard to put this book down for things like eating and sleeping. Elle