Traveling with Pomegranates

Traveling with Pomegranates is a dual mother and daughter memoir written in alternating chapters by Sue Monk Kidd and her daughter Ann Kidd Taylor. Their journeys begin in 1998 at the ruins of Eleusis in Greece, where the Demeter and Persephone myth offers each of them a different mirror. Sue, the bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees, is approaching fifty and grieving the end of her childbearing years and the slow exit of her grown children. Ann, twenty-two, has recently graduated college, lost a hoped-for path into graduate school, and fallen into a depression that has frightened them both. Over three years and several pilgrimages to sites of the sacred feminine in Greece, Turkey, and France, the two women trade stories of fear, ambition, faith, and love, learning to release the daughter and mother each has been and to recognize the women they are becoming.