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8. "The Mermaid Chair” by Sue Monk Kidd ($24.95)
This novel, by the same author who wrote “The Secret Life of Bees”, is the only book on our list that also made all the national best-seller lists as well. Inside the church of a Benedictine monastery on Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion.
When Jessie is summoned home to the island to cope with her eccentric mother’s seemingly inexplicable act of violence, she is living a conventional life with her husband, Hugh, a life “molded to the smallest space possible”. Jessie loves Hugh, but once there, she finds herself drawn to Brother Thomas, a monk who is soon to take his final vows. Amid a community 01 unforgettable island women and the exotic beauty of the marshlands, Jessie grapples with the tension of desire and the struggle to deny it.
Is the power of the mermaid chair only a myth? Or will it alter the course of Jessie’s life? What transpires will unlock the roots of her mother’s tormented past, but most of all, it will allow Jessie to make a marriage unto herself.
9. “Parting Shots from My Brittle Bow: Reflections on American Politics and Life” by Eugene J. McCarthy ($12.95)
The folks of Rappahannock County have demonstrated again how much they respect McCarthy. Further evidence of his popularity can be found in
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