An introspective and beautiful dual memoir by the #1 New York Times bestselling novelist and her daughter. Look out for Ann Kidd Taylor's new novel, The Shark Club, which will be published in June 2017. Sue Monk Kidd has touched millions of readers with her novels The Secret Life of Bees and The Mermaid Chair and with her acclaimed nonfiction. In this intimate dual memoir, she and her daughter, Ann, offer distinct perspectives as a fifty-something and a twenty-something, each on a quest to redefine herself and to rediscover each other. Between 1998 and 2000, Sue and Ann travel throughout Greece and France. Sue, coming to grips with aging, caught in a creative vacuum, longing to reconnect with her grown daughter, struggles to enlarge a vision of swarming bees into a novel. Ann, just graduated from college, heartbroken and benumbed by the classic question about what to do with her life, grapples with a painful depression. As this modern-day Demeter and Persephone chronicle the richly symbolic and personal meaning of an array of inspiring figures and sites, they also each give voice to that most protean of connections: the bond of mother and daughter. A wise and involving book about feminine thresholds, spiritual growth, and renewal, Traveling with Pomegranates is both a revealing self-portrait by a beloved author and her daughter, a writer in the making, and a momentous story that will resonate with women everywhere.
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"This was a really enjoyble book. I did this on audio and I know that you can do what you want with your own book,but It makes me a little crazy when people with southern accents read books on audio. Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor read it. Could someone please tell them that the word is "mirr-or" not "mirr-O" not a big thing I admit but the word came up many times in the course of the book and when she started to read "mirr-o, mirr-o on the walll..." I nearly drove off the road. Southern accents are beautiful, but when you are reading, the director, I assume there's a director, needs to tell you when some of your deliveries are impossible to understand when heard rather than read from a book. That's my only criticism...as I said, I really liked this book!"
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Frances (4 out of 5 stars)