From the flower of a day to the maintenance of the best-selling effect, they may give a good dose of will. Sue monk kidd was that Outstanding American bestseller who took half the world by storm with her first novel. The question at that moment is to go back from the top, when there is no more wave to climb.
As with the great most commercial type writers Dan Brown, Sue's novelThe secret life of bees»Also came to the cinema to give the plot luster on celluloid and suppose more and more books sold. But later came new novels that equally dazzled readers already won in the first round. And that's when the writer, specifying in this case, can breathe easy knowing that he has earned the benefit of the doubt in this office.
With an intimate narrative, lyrical in that detailed composition, feminist by definition and extended towards a romantic point more idealistic than loving, Sue Monk conquers with each new book, published without the regular cadence of commercial imperatives, perhaps a good resource to always surprise us like the first time we read it.
Sue Monk Kidd's Top 3 Recommended Novels
The secret life of bees
Beyond the human, everything is learning in any way of life. And even from the vision of how other species such as bees develop, we can extract very valuable readings. Because in essence the interaction, the relationships, the conservation of the spice has in any animal many more fundamentals at times than we present.
As for the feminist vision of the matter, which emerges immediately as the plot progresses, an echo of empowerment resounds from the consideration of the queen bee in charge of ruling and providing continuity to her hive.
South Carolina, 1964. Lily Owens is a fourteen-year-old girl whose life has revolved around a father who does not care for her and who blames her for the mysterious death of her mother. When her babysitter Rosaleen, a proud and fearless black woman, is jailed for defending her newly acquired right to vote against racists, Lily decides that they must both be free.
They escape to Tiburon, South Carolina, a town that keeps the secret of their mother's past, and where they will be hosted by an eccentric trio of beekeeper sisters, who will introduce Lily to the fascinating world of bees and honey.
The Book of Desires
Things should have been otherwise, no doubt. Feminism should not have been a self-defense movement, forced by the circumstances that have come from the night of time. But every culture, every civilization has always advanced with the ballast of the feminine as something "complementary" in the best of cases...
Original sins represented in women capable of guiding the human being to perdition. Temptations worse than the devil himself in the desert. The paradox (or rather the ancestral paranoia) between the capacity to give life and the manna made disgusting carnal pleasures.
The man forced his way through. And once established in a favorable position vis-à-vis women, he built, as civilization advanced, defenses against her, excuses for not representing himself as an equal.
All this in conjunction with a Sue Monk Kidd book that goes back to the time when Jesus walked the earth, preaching, sowing his peace and gathering storms.
The story of Jesus Christ had its great fictional development for me in the series «Caballo de Troya», by JJ Benitez. Now we find a new intrahistoric development to fit the role of women in those days when feminism did not even exist as a term (it took something like nineteen centuries to materialize). And the result is equally fascinating thanks to a character like Ana, who shares in this novel the most intense life of Jesus outside of what is known by sacred scriptures.
Ana is a young woman from a wealthy Jewish family with concerns and dreams. Her life changes when she meets Jesus, a rebellious young man who peacefully opposes the domination of Rome, who does not perform miracles but does help the poor and prostitutes, and who becomes a leader almost despite himself.
But what is told here is not the story we already know but that of women in a time when intelligence, ingenuity and restlessness were the property of men. A feminist claim in a novel in which the wealth of historical details and the masterful setting lead the reader to a landscape a thousand times explored but which appears totally new.
The secret of the mermaid
It is irremediable. Whenever I discover a book that quotes a mermaid, I remember Jose Luis Sampedro and her old mermaid. In the end it is a metaphor that surrounds the beautiful, the immortal, the feminine. So any story that begins with his siren songs we can already guess that it will immerse us in oceans of emotions and sensations far removed from the everyday.
Leaving behind a marriage in crisis, Jessie meets Father Thomas and together they engage in a dangerous love game. A long-hidden secret will transport Jessie to a new awakening. A brilliant and disturbing story of love and friendship.
