The Mermaid Chair (2005)

*An alternate cover edition exists[here](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34942856.here "here").*

Sue Monk Kidd's phenomenal debut, *The Secret Life of Bees* , became a runaway bestseller that is still on the *New York Times* bestseller list more than two years after its paperback publication. Now, in her luminous new novel, Kidd has woven a transcendent tale that will thrill her legion of fans. Telling the story of Jessie Sullivan -- a love story between a woman and a monk, a woman and her husband, and ultimately a woman and her own soul -- Kidd charts a journey of awakening and self-discovery illuminated with a brilliance that only a writer of her ability could conjure.