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Title: Mudbath
Review: "The Mermaid's Chair" was a big disappointment after Kidd's spectacular first novel, "The Secret Life of Bees". A bored woman hooks up with, of all people, a monk, on a barrier island off South Carolina. Illicit sex in the mud follows, followed by cleaning up, both physically and morally. Not sure how I got through it--Kidd's descriptions of the the fauna of barrier islands helped.
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