TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kidd,Sue Monk
TI  - The mermaid chair
SN  - 0143036696
AV  - PS3611.I44 M47 2006
U1  - 813/.54 22
PY  - 2006///, c2005
CY  - New York
PB  - Penguin books
KW  - Benedictines
KW  - Fiction
KW  - sears
KW  - Married women
KW  - Catholic women
KW  - Spiritual life
KW  - Islands
KW  - Monks
KW  - Wives
KW  - Religious fiction
KW  - Love stories
KW  - South Carolina
KW  - lcsh
KW  - gsafd
N1  - Wilson's Fiction; Pub Weekly; Booklist; Adult; Follett Library Resources; Adult
N2  - Forty-two-year-old Jessie is summoned home to Egret Island off the coast of South Carolina after her obsessively devout mother inexplicably cuts off her own finger, and finds herself oddly exhilarated to be free of her husband, and wildly attracted to Brother Thomas, a monk who has yet to take his final vows
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