Traveling with Pomegranates

A Mother-Daughter Story

By: Sue Monk Kidd, Ann Kidd Taylor

Narrated by: Sue Monk Kidd

An introspective and beautiful dual memoir by the #1 New York Times bestselling novelist and her daughter. Look out for Ann Kidd Taylor's new novel, The Shark Club, which will be published in June 2017.

Sue Monk Kidd has touched millions of readers with her novels The Secret Life of Bees and The Mermaid Chair and with her acclaimed nonfiction. In this intimate dual memoir, she and her daughter, Ann, offer distinct perspectives as a fifty-something and a twenty-something, each on a quest to redefine herself and to rediscover each other.

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.

A wise and involving book about feminine thresholds, spiritual growth, and renewal, Traveling with Pomegranates is both a revealing self-portrait by a beloved author and her daughter, a writer in the making, and a momentous story that will resonate with women everywhere.©2009 Sue Monk Kidd; (P)2009 Penguin

Critic reviews

Praise for Traveling with Pomegranates:

“Thoughtful, honest, and uplifting.” —The Los Angeles Times

“Any mother or daughter would enjoy or relate to the touching struggle of developing a close relationship as adult women.” —The Associated Press

“Read this one as a memoir, a travelogue and as a self-renewal book” —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Great narration by authors!

But the story back and forth was sometimes hard for me to process. Otherwise I enjoyed it!

lovely mother daughter story

i could barely listen on hearing the word "mirror" pronounced " mirrowe" too many times.

Pronunciation and diction lessons needed

I enjoyed the story but was always thrown off by the mispronunciation of French and English words. I also was a bit insulted that Sue thought she was “old” at 50 years old. That point made me think she was SO attached to her appearance et al that it made her so less credible.

A bit boring

Would you try another book from Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor and/or Sue Monk Kidd?

I love Sue's fiction but this bored me. Maybe you had to be in their exact situation. I felt like Ann was the more interesting story as she discovered she wanted to write. Sue seemed to be overthinking everything. Suffice it to say I made it through the whole book but only barely. And I never backed it up to see what I missed if I caught myself daydreaming.

Absolutely Beautiful!!

As a Mom about to turn 55 with a daughter who just turned 23 - this book touched my heart! Absolutely loved it!