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An introspective and beautiful dual memoir by the #1 ""New York Times"" bestselling novelist and her daughter 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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A touching rapprochement between mother and daughter. -- Kirkus Reviews <br><br><br><br> A return trip in 2000 finds both women changed, and a 2008 afterword rounds out this stunning account of inner journeys, separate and intertwined. -- Booklist <br><br><br><br> Read this one as a memoir, a travelogue and as a self-renewal book -- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel <br><br>

A touching rapprochement between mother and daughter. -- Kirkus Reviews A return trip in 2000 finds both women changed, and a 2008 afterword rounds out this stunning account of inner journeys, separate and intertwined. -- Booklist Read this one as a memoir, a travelogue and as a self-renewal book -- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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