The invention of wings
By: by Sue Monk Kidd
Publisher: HEADLINE OME; Headline Publishing Group; Tinder Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781472212757; 9781472212740; 9781472212764; 9781472212771
Subjects: History; Slaves; Feminists; Women's rights; Antislavery movements; Fiction
Description: "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"--Provided by publisher.