01283cam a2200349 4500 9776697 TxAuBib 20050517120000.0 ||||||s2005||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 2004061233 9780670033942 0670033944 TxAuBib Kidd, Sue Monk. The mermaid chair / Sue Monk Kidd. New York : Viking, 2005. xi, 335 p ; 22 cm. Pub Weekly. Booklist. Forty-two-year-old Jessie is summoned home to Egret Island off the coast of South Carolina after her obsessively devout mother inexplicably cuts off her own finger, and finds herself oddly exhilarated to be free of her husband, and wildly attracted to Brother Thomas, a monk who has yet to take his final vows. Adult. Benedictines Fiction. Married women Fiction. Catholic women Fiction. Wives Fiction. Spiritual life Fiction. Islands Fiction. Monks Fiction. South Carolina Fiction. Religious fiction. Love stories.