The South Gives Us A New Voice
Sue Monk Kidd is an amazing writer. Her prose sings in a voice that puts her at the forefront of the new wave of Southern writers. "The Mermaid Chair" is the bittersweet love story of a man who is about to take his final vows as a Monk on a South Carolina island and a married woman who returns to the island where she grew up.It's a simple stopy of love found and lost, but the secret of this tale is the prose itself. When I finished reading her earlier novel, "The Secert Life of Bees" I thought here comes a new literery star.I was right.