The Invention of Wings
A novel tracing the entwined lives of a Charleston slaveholder’s daughter and an enslaved girl she is given as a gift.
Sue Monk Kidd builds her novel around two women in early nineteenth-century Charleston: Sarah, the daughter of a slaveholding family, and Handful, an enslaved girl given to Sarah as a birthday gift. Over decades their lives twist together and apart as both reach for a freedom their world denies them. Kidd draws on the real abolitionist Sarah Grimke to explore conscience, complicity, and the cost of resistance.
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Oprah Winfrey
It is impossible to read this book and not come away thinking differently about our status as women and about all the unsung heroines who play a role in getting us to where we are.
Book Club · January 2014
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