The invention of wings
(2014)
By:
Kidd, Sue Monk
Fiction
Book
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FICTION/KIDD,S
1 Hold on 1 Copy
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Details
PUBLISHED
New York, New York : Viking, [2014]
DESCRIPTION
373 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780670024780 (hbk.), 0670024783 (hbk.)
LANGUAGE
English
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NOTES
"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"--
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