Jessie Sullivan is a middle-aged woman caught in a very conventional life; until one day when she is forced to leave her husband and daughter in Atlanta to take care of her mother who cut off one of her fingers. Back at her childhood home in Egret Bay with a mother she was never close to, Jessie is surprisingly relieved to be away from her husband. She becomes intrigued with Brother Thomas, a monk in the Benedictine monastery on Egret Island. In the highly anticipated The Mermaid Chair, Jessie Sullivan struggles with her mother’s past and her own future.

Sue Monk Kidd’s debut novel, The Secret Life of Bees, spent 81 weeks on the New York Times bestselling list. The publisher of The Mermaid Chair is Viking Adult by the Penguin Group.
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