A dazzling novel of passion and spirituality--the instant blockbuster bestseller from the author of The Secret Life of Bees

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.

"Book clubs, start your engines. . . . [The Mermaid Chair] is a tapestry strengthened by bonds between women that bridge pain and loss."
--USA Today
"The pages all but turn themselves." --Parade
"Soulful in its probing of the human heart." --San Francisco Chronicle
"Kidd draws connections from the feminine to the divine to the erotic that a lesser writer wouldn't see, and might not have the guts to follow." --Time
"It's hard to put this book down for things like eating and sleeping." --Elle

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