How does the mermaid chair end?

She cuts off her fingers because she feels guilty for assisting in the death of her husband. He was killed because he had a serious degenerative brain disease. The monks may have helped her. She goes back to her husband, and her Monk lover leaves the monetary and goes on to his own life.

What genre is the mermaid chair?

Novel
Romance novelReligious Fiction
The Mermaid Chair/Genres

Who wrote the mermaid chair book?

Sue Monk Kidd
The Mermaid Chair/Authors

ABOUT SUE MONK KIDD Sue Monk Kidd’s first novel, The Secret Life of Bees, spent more than one hundred weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, has sold more than four million copies, and was chosen as the 2004 Book Sense Paperback Book of the Year and Good Morning America’s “Read This!” Book Club pick.

Where is the mermaid chair?

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.

Who is the author of the Mermaid Chair?

a memorable read. The Mermaid Chair is the second novel by Sue Monk Kidd. Set on the South Carolina barrier island of Egret, it describes three intense months that change the life of 42-year-old Jessie Sullivan when she returns to her childhood home.

Where does the Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd take place?

The Mermaid Chair is the second novel by Sue Monk Kidd. Set on the South Carolina barrier island of Egret, it describes three intense months that change the life of 42-year-old Jessie Sullivan when she returns to her childhood home. Believing she is

Who is Jessie Sullivan in the Mermaid Chair?

In her remarkable follow-up to the widely acclaimed The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd tells a beautiful and haunting story centered around forty-two-year-old Jessie Sullivan, a woman in quiet crisis whose return home to the island of a mermaid saint becomes a pilgrimage to self-awakening.

What does the Mermaid mean in the book?

Water is a symbol of emotion. The mermaid symbolizes being immersed in one’s own emotions (water), becoming comfortable in one’s mystical and emotional medium. (less) See 2 questions about The Mermaid Chair… More lists with this book… I did not like this book. Thats not entirely accurate.