Bestselling author Sue Monk Kidd has new book out and this time it’s a memoir written with her daughter. Between 1998 and 2000, Sue and Ann travel throughout Greece and France. Sue, coming to grips with aging, caught in a creative vacuum, longing to reconnect with her grown daughter, struggles to enlarge a vision of swarming bees into a novel. Ann, just graduated from college, heartbroken and benumbed by the classic question about what to do with her life, grapples with a painful depression. As this modern-day Demeter and Persephone chronicle the richly symbolic and personal meaning of an array of inspiring figures and sites, they also each give voice to that most protean of connections: the bond of mother and daughter.
Here’s a snippet from the book:
Sitting on a bench in the National Archaeological Museum in Greece, I watch my twenty-two-year-old daughter, Ann, angle her camera before a marble bas- relief of Demeter and Persephone unaware of the small ballet she’s performing— her slow, precise steps forward, the tilt of her head, the way she dips to one knee as she turns her torso, leaning into the sharp afternoon light. The scene reminds me of something, a memory maybe, but I can’t recall what. I only know she looks beautiful and impossibly grown, and for reasons not clear to me I’m possessed by an acute feeling of loss. You can read more here.
Doesn’t it sound good? Well, I’ve got two copies of Traveling With Pomegranates to give away! So, because I love to travel and this book also has travel as a backdrop, if you want to enter to win a copy all you have to do is tell me where in the world would you like to go to right now if time/money was not a problem.
The winners will be announced next Friday, Oct. 2.
Hope everyone has a great weekend. I’m hoping to catch up on reviews and lots of blog reading. I’m so behind!
Is this open internationally? Well, regardless. Of course if money was not a problem I’d travel around the world but if I have to choose one destination it’ll be Egypt. I’ve always been fascinated with the pyramids and have always had the intention to stand at the top of the pyraminds and shout out for E.T! 😛
If it is open international then I would too like to be entered. If money was no object then right this second I would love to go to Paris; I’ve been before and it’s not too far away but lately I’ve been desperate to go back.
My daughter loves Italy so that is definately where I would go and take her to all the places she wants to see.
Thanks for the givewaway!
I would love to go to Dublin or the the northeast in the US to see the leaves changing.
This is easy for me — Italy! I’ve been wanting to go there forever.
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I have always wanted to take a leisurely tour around the English countryside. One day…
There is no place in the world I’d rather be than at home with my wife and daughter. All the money and travel in the world can’t compare.
Oh my goodness! I just put this on my TBR list because I heard them on a Think podcast (from KERA) this week. They were in Dallas!
OK, if I could go anywhere right now, I would choose Seattle. It intrigues me, and I want to see if I’m just as intrigued in person. 🙂
There are so many places I would want to go! I think if I could choose just one place, it would be England. I’ve always wanted to go there!
If I could go anywhere right now, it would also be England, to visit my great-aunt and great-uncle who are in their 80s. I miss them!
Please enter me in this giveaway — I’m dying to read this book. Thanks!
I would love to be considered for the giveway. My daughter just got back from a trip to Italy and France. I was suppose to meet her in France and spend two weeks with her before her return and I had to cancel it. So, don’t you think that it would be the perfect book to read since I have missed the trip? If I could I would go on and go to France to see my family then India, a dream of mine. Thanks for the opportunity Iliana.
If I could go anywhere in the world, I would visit Tanzania, Africa. My brother and sister-in-law moved there to do mission work in March 2009. We are very close, and my sister-in-law is 5 months pregnant. I would love to spend time with them if time & money were not issues!
Hi Iliana, I would love to win and read the book. If I could go anywhere in the world and money were no object I would go to Australia.
I would by a sailboat, live on it and sail around the world–taking my time. I’d probably do this with my cat & my husband. Nice goal to have if I win the mega millions lottery.
I love Sue Monk Kidd’s books–this one sounds wonderful.
Thanks for the chance!
One of the reasons I would LOVE to win this book is because Greece is the place I would travel, with no financial or time restrictions. Of course, it’s hard to pick just one location. I’d also love to see India, go on an African safari, check out Australia, see Ireland, and spend some time on some tropical beaches in the Virgin Islands.
This does sound like a good book.
If I could travel I would go back to Scotland. We were there a few years ago but for too short a time and since my father is from Scotland, I would love to explore more and meet up with the few living relatives still living there. And I too would love to go to Australia. Great things to dream about.
Take me to Ireland! I’d research family history, do all the touristy stuff, and visit some pubs 🙂
Thanks for the opportunity, Iliana!
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Only one place? That’s always the hardest is narrowing all the places I’d like to visit to one place. Right now I would like to go back to Oregon. This book sounds wonderful. Thanks for hosting this giveaway, Iliana.
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Australia. Hubby and I were just talking about the fact that he went to my dream country without me. He looked so guilty!! LOL Please add me and thanks for hosting the giveaway, Iliana!
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I’d like to go to New Zealand with my pomegranate in hand. Thanks for the book contest. Best Aloha from Rob
I would have said Egypt and Greece/ Greek Islands, but I just went! Sooo I would say definitely Japan….the cherry blossoms, the green tea, the sushi, the tokyo nightlife, the japanese villages, the bullet train, the soft powdersnow…whats not to love? I wanna go there right now!
Please enter me, btw, I’d love to win this book, hehe.
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I wish I were in Czech now. I want to be in Prague!! I’ll backpack there someday in the future.
Please enter me for the draw. I’d love to win this book.
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Ooh, this giveaway is too much to resist! If I could go anywhere right now, it would probably be close to home–as odd as that sounds. When I was growing up we vacationed in Oklahoma in Robber’s Cave State Park. Pretty mountains, lush scenery, miniature golf (hehe). It was pure relaxation as opposed to those vacations where we ran here and there with stacked itineraries. I’m longing for that relaxation time, so that would probably be just the right fix.
I’ve been reading quite a few books lately that mention Paris. I would love to be sitting in a Parisian cafe right now!
I’d love to go so very many places. I guess today my answer for where I’d want to hop on a plane and visit immediately would be New Zealand but I’m sure the answer would change by the day for me.
Thanks for hosting this giveaway.
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Turkey-I imagine that the food would be exquisite and the country is rich in history. thanks
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I would be pleased to go just about anywhere out of the US since I have a keen sense of wanting to explore the world and have never been outside the US of A. But if I had to choose one place, it would be Ireland. I’m a Halligan that married a Fagan. I’d love to explore roots and am also enamored with Celtic Christian history….their gift of expressing themselves in poetic prayers and the way they felt God through nature! I want to set my feet on that land, close my eyes and feel what they felt.
I hope this is open for overseas readers! The place I am dying to go is China.
Thanks for hosting the giveaway.
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I would loooove to go to England 🙂
thanks for the giveaway!
This sounds wonderful – I’m in. If time and money weren’t a problem, and I could travel instantaneously, then I’d go to San Francisco and travel up the coast. It looks so very beautiful there and I’ve long had a dream of driving route 1.
Not sure if this is open internationally, but regardless, if I could go anywhere right now I’d probably choose France so I could tour around to all the places I didn’t get a chance to visit before, like the Loire Valley, Bordeaux, Provence, just about everywhere really! Ah, now you have me dreaming… 😉
That’s easy. I’d take a 4 week long trip to Italy. And I’d invite my daughter to join me. This book sounds like just the sort of memoir I love to read! If I don’t win, I can guarantee I’ll buy a copy for myself.
I would love to read this book! I would pick Ireland. I have always wanted to go there. Thanks!
If time and money were not a problem I would head for Africa …….. and I may not come back for a long time!! This has been my dream for the past 45 years and I have yet to fulfill those dreams.
So many places I want to go, I’m not sure I could choose! If I had to narrow it down, at the moment I would say Cornwall, England! The book sounds great by the way!
hmmm!!! Now 2 books… i think i should win this 😀
of course i would love to goto Mauritius FIRST? then maybe switzerland… YUMM! and then Malaysia…then … do u want me to stop now? hehhhe! I know!
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There are so many places I’d love to return to yet so many places I’ve never been…If money were no object, I’d just go everywhere – to visit friends in Thailand and Singapore, visit my husband’s family in the Philippines (once the floods subside of course), go to Bali. Of course, if I was just allowed one vacation, it would be to somewhere in South America or Africa as I haven’t been to either of those continents yet…
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