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Title: The Mermaid Chair
Review: This book disappointed me. I had heard such wonderful things about the Secret Life of Bees (which I did not read), that I had high hopes for this book. The Mermaid Chair actually tells two stories, and the author makes little effort to tie the two together. In fact, the affair the protagonist has with a Benedictine monk seemed gratuitous and certainly not necessary to the story about the protagonist's parents. There were a few beautifully expressed passages, but most of the prose was overdone and embarrassingly so in some cases. I would not recommend this book. I could not wait for it to be over.
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