Traveling with Pomegranates
Traveling with Pomegranates is a dual mother and daughter memoir written in alternating chapters by Sue Monk Kidd and her daughter Ann Kidd Taylor. Their journeys begin in 1998 at the ruins of Eleusis in Greece, where the Demeter and Persephone myth offers each of them a different mirror. Sue, the bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees, is approaching fifty and grieving the end of her childbearing years and the slow exit of her grown children. Ann, twenty-two, has recently graduated college, lost a hoped-for path into graduate school, and fallen into a depression that has frightened them both. Over three years and several pilgrimages to sites of the sacred feminine in Greece, Turkey, and France, the two women trade stories of fear, ambition, faith, and love, learning to release the daughter and mother each has been and to recognize the women they are becoming.
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The questions readers send us most often, answered without spoilers.
Between 1998 and 2000, novelist Sue Monk Kidd and her daughter Ann Kidd Taylor take three trips together to Greece, Turkey, and France, with Sue at fifty and Ann at twenty-two.
Yes. Traveling with Pomegranates is a 2009 mother-daughter memoir co-written by Sue Monk Kidd and her daughter Ann Kidd Taylor. It chronicles their travels in Greece and France during transitional periods of their lives.
Yes. Both are travel memoirs about midlife transitions and identity. Traveling with Pomegranates is more interior and family-focused; Eat Pray Love is more about a single woman's journey.
Traveling with Pomegranates was written by Sue Monk Kidd, published in 2009 by Viking.
Traveling with Pomegranates is a standalone novel by Sue Monk Kidd, not part of a series.
Traveling with Pomegranates is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.