The Invention of Wings A Novel (Original Publisher's Edition-No Annotations)

Sue Monk Kidd

eBook - 2014

From the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees comes a novel about two unforgettable American women.Hetty “Handful” Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke’s daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women.Kidd’s sweeping novel is set in motion on Sarah’s eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership of ten year old Handful, who is to be her handmaid. We follow their remarkable journeys over the next thirty five years, as both strive for a life of their own, dramatically shaping each other’s de...stinies and forming a complex relationship marked by guilt, defiance, estrangement and the uneasy ways of love.Inspired by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke, Kidd goes beyond the record to... more