Saturday, October 17, 2009

Giveaway: TRAVELING WITH POMEGRANATES by Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor


Thanks to the generous folks at Penguin USA,
I have been authorized to
giveaway two (2) copies of
TRAVELING WITH POMEGRANATES.

Rules for entering this giveaway are at the bottom of this post.



by Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor
Pub. Date: September 2009
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Format: Hardcover, 304pp
ISBN-13: 9780670021208
ISBN: 0670021202

Synopsis (from the publisher):

An introspective and beautiful dual memoir by the #1 New York Times bestselling novelist and her daughter


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.

Click here to read an excerpt.



Rules for entering this giveaway:

• Leave a comment on this post telling me you would like to win. Include an email address with your comment so that I can contact you if you do win. Use a spam-thwarting format such as geebee.reads AT gmail DOT com or geebee.reads [at] gmail [dot] com

You must leave an email address in order to qualify. If I can't contact you, you can't win!

• You can earn an extra entry by being or becoming a Follower or Subscriber of this blog and telling me about it in a separate comment.

• Blog about this contest and provide me with the link to the post in a separate comment, and I'll give you yet another entry.

• Tweeting about this contest and providing me the link in a separate comment will get you one more entry. I've added a Retweet button at the bottom of every post.

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• Winners must provide a U.S. or Canadian street address. Hachette is unable to deliver to P.O. Boxes.

Deadline for entry is 11:59 p.m. EST on Monday, October 26, 2009.

• Winners will have 48 hours to respond to my email announcing that they have won; if I don't hear from a winner, I will draw another name.

Thank you to Katrina from Wiredset
for making this giveaway possible.

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!

THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED.

93 comments:

Jen - Devourer of Books said...

I've heard great things about this and would love to win it!

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I think their mother-daughter relationship as family members and fellow authors is interesting. Would love to win!
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