Traveling with Pomegranates

Table of Contents
 
 
 
 
ALSO BY SUE MONK KIDD
The Secret Life of Bees
 
The Mermaid Chair
 
The Dance of the Dissident Daughter
 
Firstlight
 
When the Heart Waits
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“Ceres Looks at the Morning” from
The Lost Land
by Eavan Boland. Copyright © 1998 by Eavan Boland. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
“The Music Master” from
The Essential Rumi
, translations by Coleman Barks with John Moyne (HarperOne). By permission of Coleman Barks.
“When a woman feels alone, when the room” from
Collected Poems 1930-1993
by May Sarton. Copyright © 1984 by May Sarton. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
“Sweet Darkness” from
The House of Belonging
by David Whyte. Reprinted with permission of Many Rivers Press, Langley, Washington.
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Kidd, Sue Monk.
Traveling with pomegranates : a mother daughter story / by Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor. p. cm.
eISBN : 978-1-101-14491-6
1. Kidd, Sue Monk—Travel—Greece. 2. Kidd, Sue Monk—Family. 3. Mothers and daughters—United States. 4. Authors, American—21st century—Biography. 5. Taylor, Ann Kidd. I. Taylor, Ann Kidd. II. Title.
PS3611.I44Z’.6 B—dc22 2009009388
 
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To Terry and Mandy Helwig with love
SIGHTS AND PLACES IN
Traveling with Pomegranates
LOSS
Greece / Turkey / South Carolina
1998 -1999

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