Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France by Sue Monk Kidd, Ann Kidd Taylor
The New York Times bestselling memoir of pilgrimage and metamorphosis by the author of The Secret Life of Bees and her daughter. Sue Monk Kidd has touched the hearts of millions of readers with her beloved novels and acclaimed nonfiction. Now, in this wise and engrossing dual memoir, she and her...
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The New York Times bestselling memoir of pilgrimage and metamorphosis by the author of The Secret Life of Bees and her daughter.
Sue Monk Kidd has touched the hearts of millions of readers with her beloved novels and acclaimed nonfiction. Now, in this wise and engrossing dual memoir, she and her daughter, Ann, chronicle their travels together through Greece and France at a time when each was on a quest to redefine herself and rediscover each other.
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Format: papier
ISBN:
9780143117971
Publish date: 7 września 2010
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
Language,
Book Club,
Feminism,
Spirituality,
Womens
[Non-fiction] This book celebrates womanhood -- the tone sacred and reverential. One could read this book as a spiritual quest, and/or as a rite-of-passage 'duet' between (alternating chapters written by) mother and daughter, as each woman enters a new stage of life. Each chapter's viewpoint is of t...
I appreciated the author of Secret Life of Bees more for reading this work. She is a different and very careful thinker. If you want to write a book people find meaningful, first fill your head with meaningful things.
Part travel monologue part spiritual journey this book chronicles several mother daughter trips and the spiritual journey learned in each.
I'm surprised by all the negative reviews of this book. I guess if you haven't read Dance of the Dissident Daughter, you aren't prepared for Sue Monk Kidd's slower, more contemplative writing on women and spirituality. I consciously saved this book to read during a week of Ritual Grief time I took a...
Ugh! Was so excited to read this one, and it was pure drivel. Although I can relate to the author's situations, I so cannot relate to her responses - her seeking the magic pill to solve the aging issues. The Mary Mysticism thing is quite disconcerting. Do people really think like this? The daugh...
13 years ago
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