Book Review - Travelling With Pomegranates: by Sue Monk Kidd & Ann Kidd Taylor

The Book This is a “travel memoir from the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestselling author and her daughter. Sue Monk Kidd and her daughter Ann chronicle their travels together at a time when each had reached an important turning point in her life.” Ref: Booktopia, Australia. “Between 1998 and 2000, Sue and Ann travel throughout Greece and France. Sue, coming to grips with aging, caught in a creative vacuum, longing to reconnect with her grown daughter, struggles to enlarge a vision of swarming bees into a novel.

Ann, just graduated from college, heartbroken and benumbed by the classic question about what to do with her life, grapples with a painful depression. As this modern-day Demeter and Persephone chronicle the richly symbolic and personal meaning of an array of inspiring figures and sites, they also each give voice to that most protean of connections: the bond of mother and daughter.” Ref: Goodreads

About The Author

Sue Monk Kidd is the award-winning and bestselling author of THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES and THE MERMAID CHAIR. She lives in South Carolina with her husband.

Review

“A wise and involving book about feminine thresholds, spiritual growth, and renewal, Traveling with Pomegranates is both a revealing self-portrait by a beloved author and her daughter, a writer in the making, and a momentous story that will resonate with women everywhere.” Ref: Goodreads review.

Our book club members did not agree with the Goodread’s review. We all struggled to complete reading this book and a few just simply did not finish it. We found it self- indulgent and as one member said “I’m not interested in navel gazing.” Even the travel sections through Greece and France failed to hold our interest. Personally, it brought back my own memories of travelling through both countries but the author’s emphasis on Christian religious sites related to Mary, held little interest to me. Our book club recommendation is to choose another book to read.

Thank you to Margaret Cassidy for the review.