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050 00 $aPS3611.I44$bM47 2005
082 00 $a813/.54$222
100 1 $aKidd, Sue Monk.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85157706
245 14 $aThe mermaid chair /$cSue Monk Kidd.
260 $aNew York :$bViking,$c[2005], ©2005.
300 $axi, 335 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"Inside the church of a Benedictine monastery on 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." "When Jessie is summoned home to the island to cope with her eccentric mother's seemingly inexplicable act of violence, she is living a conventional life with her husband, Hugh, a life "molded to the smallest space possible." Jessie loves Hugh, but once there, she finds herself drawn to Brother Thomas, a monk who is soon to take his final vows. Amid a rich community of unforgettable island women and the exotic beauty of marshlands, tidal creeks, and majestic egrets, Jessie grapples with the tension of desire and the struggle to deny it, with a freedom that feels overwhelmingly right and the immutable force of home and marriage." "Is the power of the mermaid chair only a myth? Or will it alter the course of Jessie's life? What transpires will unlock the roots of her mother's tormented past, but most of all, it will allow Jessie to make a marriage unto herself." "The Mermaid Chair is a novel about mermaids and saints, about the passions of the spirit and the ecstasies of the body. It illuminates the awakening of a woman to her own deepest self."--BOOK JACKET.
610 20 $aBenedictines$vFiction.
650 0 $aMarried women$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107257
650 0 $aCatholic women$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009118544
650 0 $aSpiritual life$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111480
650 0 $aIslands$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008104288
650 0 $aMonks$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107477
651 0 $aSouth Carolina$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111423
655 7 $aReligious fiction.$2lcgft$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026502
655 7 $aLove stories.$2gsafd
852 00 $bglx$hPS3611.I44$iM47 2005