The invention of wings [book club]

Author

Sue Monk Kidd

Call Number

• BOOK CLUB FICTION KIDD (CEN)

Publication Information

New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2015.

Physical Description

373 pages ; 25 cm

Summary

"The story follows Hetty 'Handful' Grimke, a Charleston slave, and Sarah, the daughter of the wealthy Grimke family. The novel begins on Sarah's eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership over Handful, who is to be her handmaid. The Invention of Wings follows the next thirty-five years of their lives. Inspired in part by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke (a feminist, suffragist and, importantly, an abolitionist), Kidd allows herself to go beyond the record to flesh out the inner lives of all the characters, both real and imagined"--

Notes

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