In “The Secret Life of Bees," a white girl and her friend, an older black woman, having been wounded by men, find sanctuary with a group of women in rural South Carolina where they have established a kind of oasis of harmony and safety. This autobiographical volume needs to be read to its conclusion, because Kidd modulates and stabilizes her position by the end of it. In “Dissident Daughter" she writes of her journey from obedient daughter to believer in the feminine divine and the Goddess. She decided that the church was patriarchal and condescending to women, blamed Eve for bringing sin into the world, kept women out of any real power and expected them to be obedient. But, as Kidd writes in “The Dance of the Dissident Daughter," she underwent considerable disillusionment with her church. Kidd wrote literally hundreds of pieces for “Watchtower," a Christian publication, and several volumes of inspirational writing: “When the Heart Waits," “God’s Joyful Surprise," “Love’s Hidden Blessings," “All Things Are Possible," “This Is the Day" (I am not making these titles up). The road to this novel has had some interesting turns in it, however. Kidd has become a publishing and cultural phenomenon, and her newest book, “The Mermaid Chair," is solidly on the best-/sseller lists. There were two men in the audience of about 600. She was given the key to the city of Homewood at the end of her presentation. On the evening of March 29, Sue Monk Kidd spoke to a sold-out house in Homewood.
0 kommentar(er)
