The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd (Hardcover) Katie Williams Everything Spensa has been taught

Everything Spensa has been taught about her world is a lie

Ariadne sees in his green eyes not a threat but an escape

and the prose is beautiful

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The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd (Hardcover) Katie Williams Everything Spensa has been taughtInside the abbey of a Benedictine monastery on tiny Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion. Jessie Sullivans conventional life has been molded to the smallest space possible. So when she is called home to cope with her mothers startling and enigmatic act of violence, Jessie finds herself