num_pages: 352
description: An alternate cover edition exists .Sue Monk Kidd's 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 Sullivan -- a love story between a woman and a monk, a woman and her husband, and ultimately a woman and her own soul -- Kidd charts a journey of awakening and self-discovery illuminated with a brilliance that only a writer of her ability could conjure.
language: English
title: The Mermaid Chair
titlecomplete: The Mermaid Chair
genres: Fiction, Relationships, Book Club, Womens, Romance, Adult, Chick Lit, Novels, Contemporary, Adult Fiction
ratings_count: 84852
places: The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: The Quill Award
category: General Fiction
publisher: Headline