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Laddar... The Mermaid Chair: A Novel (utgåvan 2005)av Sue Monk Kidd (Författare)
VerkdetaljerJungfrutronen av Sue Monk Kidd
  
Top Five Books of 2013 (1,291) » 4 till Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Liked the references to the SC island life, mermaid myths. Hard time with Jessie feeling the need for a relationship with a monk. She was raised to respect them and their way of life which includes no sex. Her need to get away from her husband was understandable - life in the marriage was changing and needed time to grow differently. The reason for her mother to chop off her finger was too far fetched. She let her daughter continue an unfair memory of her Dad. (  ) kshydog | Dec 13, 2020 |  Strange book. Sad. Dysfunction. Not what I want to read in 2020--the disastrous year. (  ) lhaines56 | Sep 25, 2020 | Meh. ( ) MarjorieDT | Mar 31, 2020 | I liked Secret Life of Bees thus choose this. Interesting story. Kind of a woman's mid-life crisis. ( ) karenhulseman | Dec 3, 2019 | I liked Secret Life of Bees thus choose this. Interesting story. Kind of a woman's mid-life crisis. ( ) karenhulseman | Dec 3, 2019 |
Forty-three-year old Jessie Sullivan is pulled out of her staid life in Atlanta with her husband and daughter, back to her childhood home on Egret Island after her mother, Nelle, cuts off one of her own fingers. Jessie has been uneasy with the island since her beloved father died when she was nine in a boating accident, a tragedy Jessie has always felt partially responsible for. At the behest of her mother's best friend, Jessie journeys back to the island to try to reconnect with the mother she's never been close to. Jessie wants to know what drove her obviously disturbed mother to sever her finger, and she thinks Father Dominic, one of the Benedictine monks who resides in a nearby monastery, might know more about her mother's state of mind. But it is another monk who claims Jessie's attention--handsome Brother Thomas, who ignites in Jessie a passion so intense it overwhelms her, leading her to question her marriage and rediscover her artistic drive. Ingår iHar bearbetningen
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 Sullivan's conventional life has been "molded to the smallest space possible." So when she is called home to cope with her mother's startling and enigmatic act of violence, Jessie finds herself relieved to be apart from her husband, Hugh. Jessie loves Hugh, but on Egret Island-- amid the gorgeous marshlands and tidal creeks--she becomes drawn to Brother Thomas, a monk who is mere months from taking his final vows. What transpires will unlock the roots of her mother's tormented past, but most of all, as Jessie grapples with the tension of desire and the struggle to deny it, she will find a freedom that feels overwhelmingly right. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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