In just the last few days, several people, in several different places, have been telling me about how much they like the work of author Sue Monk Kidd. The Secret Life of Bees was a huge bestseller a couple years ago. Her new novel, The Mermaid Chair, will publish next week.
Inside the abbey of a Benedictine monastery on 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.
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