by Sue Monk Kidd
Sophomore effort. Not as good as Secret Life of Bees, but enjoyable nonetheless. This time the heroine is a middle aged woman whose only child has just left the nest. She's taking time to figure out who she is now while taking care of her mother, a religious fanatic who lives alone on an island off the SC coast who has inexplicably cut off her finger. It turns out that crazy mom feels guilt for the (extremely farfetched) way in which the father died years before. The heronine manages to fall in love at first sight with a monk who has not yet taken his final vows.
There is a real Mermaid Chair in a monestary in England.
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