The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

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 destinies 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 flesh out the rich interior lives of all of her characters, both real and invented, including Handful's cunning mother, Charlotte, who courts danger in her search for something better.

This exquisitely written novel is a triumph of storytelling that looks with unswerving eyes at a devastating wound in American history, through women whose struggles for liberation, empowerment, and expression will leave no reader unmoved.

Sue Monk Kidd is the author of the New York Times bestselling novels The Secret Life of Bees and The Mermaid Chair. She has also authored numerous critically acclaimed memoirs, including the New York Times bestseller Traveling with Pomegranates, which she co-wrote with her daughter Ann Kidd Taylor. She resides in the state of Florida.

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ISBN 13	9780143121701
ISBN 10	0143121707
Title	The Invention of Wings
Author	Sue Monk Kidd
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2015-05-05
Number of pages	400
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