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“Secret Life of Bees” Author, Sue Monk Kidd, to Speak at Avalon Theatre
October 4th to Benefit Women & Girls
Best-selling author Sue Monk Kidd—
who first wowed readers with The Secret
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Life of Bees—will appear at the Avalon Theatre
with her daughter and co-author, Ann
Kidd Taylor, on Friday, October 4, for the
seventh in the popular “Women & Girls
Fund Presents” speaker series.
The announcement that the mother and
daughter team is coming to the Mid-Shore
has already struck a chord with area readers,
says Scotti Oliver, assistant director of the
Talbot County Free Library. In response,
Oliver and her staff have scheduled a book
discussion event on September 23, as well
as a screening of the film, The Secret Life of
Bees, on September 16. (For more information,
call 410-822-1626.)
Kidd and Taylor will talk about their
travels together in Greece and France, when
they appear at the Avalon, and they’ll also
discuss their evolving relationship. Oliver
says both topics are at the center of their recent
book, Traveling with Pomegranates.
“Sue Monk Kidd and her daughter are
the dynamic duo of mother-daughter authors,”
Oliver said. “Seldom do you find a
mother and daughter joining forces to tell a
story, and Traveling with Pomegranates is a
wonderful story of travel, mythology, changing
lives and reconnecting. That’s why people
will come to programs at the library and
at the Avalon; there’s something there for
everybody.”
Traveling with Pomegranates followed
The Secret Life of Bees onto the New York
Times bestseller list when it was published
in 2009. In some ways a travel tale and in
others a memoir, the book relates the stories
of two women, a mother in her 50s and her
daughter in her 20s, each at a crossroads,
“on a quest to rediscover herself and one another.”
Beth Spurry, president of the Women &
Girls Fund and mother of a teenage daughter,
said she is especially looking forward to
the Kidd-Taylor appearance because their
topics are both universally and personally
interesting.
“The Women & Girls Fund is about the
importance of women and girls in our families,
our neighborhoods, our workplaces and
our communities,” Spurry said. “I loved
reading Pomegranates, I’ve discussed the
book with friends, and now I’m eager to
meet these two remarkable women so we all
can continue this conversation about one of
life’s deepest connections.”
Avid reader Susan Simmons of Caroline
County says she’s already bought two
tickets for the October event, for herself and
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