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The mermaid chair / Sue Monk Kidd.
Inside the abbey of a Benedictine monastery on tiny Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion. Jessie Sullivans conventional life has been “molded to the smallest space possible.” So when she is called home to cope with her mothers startling and enigmatic act of violence, Jessie finds herself relieved to be apart from her husband, Hugh. Jessie loves Hugh, but on Egret Islandamid the gorgeous marshlands and tidal creeksshe becomes drawn to Brother Thomas, a monk who is mere months from taking his final vows.
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- ISBN: 0670033944
- Physical Description: xi, 335 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York : Viking, 2005.
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| Subject: | Married women > Fiction. Catholic women > Fiction. South Carolina > Fiction. Spiritual life > Fiction. Benedictines > Fiction. Islands > Fiction. Monks > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Religious fiction. Romance fiction. |
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