Product Overview
TheNew York Timesbestselling memoir of pilgrimage and metamorphosis by the author ofThe Secret Life of Beesandher daughter, Ann Kidd Taylor. Look out for Ann's new novel, The Shark Club, which will be published in June 2017.
Sue Monk Kidd has touched the hearts of millions of readers with her beloved novels and acclaimed nonfiction. Now, in this wise and engrossing dual memoir, she and her daughter, Ann, chronicle their travels together through Greece and France at a time when each was on a quest to redefine herself and rediscover each other.
As Sue struggles to enlarge a vision of swarming bees into a novel, and Ann ponders the classic question of what to do with her life, this modern-day Demeter and Persephone explore an array of inspiring figures and sacred sites. They also give voice to that most protean of human connections: the bond of mothers and daughters.
