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Title: Who is this author and why did she write this book?
Review: My book club and I loved "The Secret Life of Bees"--it was soulful, literate, engrossing and carried us into a world we longed to know and embrace. "The Mermaid's Chair" was just the opposite. It had no soul, the writing was contrived (were these books really written by the same author?), no characters were fleshed out (thus one didn't care about any of them), and the world of mermaids and monks was downright silly. I would not recommend this book to my book club or anyone else.
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