I am reading the loveliest book. It was sent to me to review by a very professional and courteous PR person representing Penguin and oh, I don’t know, I just have a soft place in my heart for the PR people who are doing a good job. When I said, sure, I’d love to read that book she FedEx’d it to me in a flash! And that was great because here I sit, sick as can be, swilling gallons of tea and reading a lovely book.
Did you read The Secret Life of Bees? I did, and I loved it. Traveling with Pomegranates is by Sue Monk Kidd and her daughter, Ann Kidd Taylor. It’s nonfiction (unlike Secret Life); a mother-daughter memoir; and it’s just what the doctor ordered.
If you’re a mother or a daughter (or both, as I am) and (bonus) the mother OF a daughter, this coming of age plus coming of middle-age journey is warm and tender and beautifully written.
It’s probably particularly appealing to me because its authors are writers and in it, Sue is grappling with her growth as a writer, the rebirth of creativity in the time before she became a novelist. Ann is in that tumultuous time between undergrad and graduate school, trying to figure out where she’s headed and dealing with depression. It’s touching, and I feel as if I’m connecting with both of them, having been in both those places emotionally many times before.
It’s a good book — book club worthy, for sure.
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Sorry you’re under the weather. I loved Secret Life of Bees, too. I’ll have to get this one. Thanks for the suggestion. Hope you’re feeling like yourself again soon!
I’ve got it on reserve — I think I’m about #200 — maybe I’ll get it by the end of the year!
Loved Secret Life of Bees (read it three times!) so looking forward to something interesting and different from Sue Monk Kid. Thinking I’m going to have to buy it as reserving it at the library looks grim!
Can always count on you for something new and different on your blog – thanks!
PS Starbuck is too adorable!!