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The invention of wings : a novel / Sue Monk Kidd.

By: Publication details: New York : Viking, c2014.Edition: 1st edDescription: 373 p. : 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780670024780
  • 0670024783
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.6 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3611.I44 I58 2014
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."--Publisher.
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Fiction Hanover Public Library Shelves FIC KIDD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31906000936501

"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."--Publisher.

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