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The invention of wings: Sue Monk Kidd.

The invention of wings: Sue Monk Kidd.
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ISBN 9781594138867
Shelf Location LP/KID General
Author Kidd, Sue Monk
Title The invention of wings / Sue Monk Kidd.
Edition Large print.
Publication Details Waterville, Maine:
2015 Large Print Press,
©2014
Collation 649 pages : 22 cm ;
Abstract/Summary 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. As the stories build to a riveting climax, Handful will endure loss and sorrow, finding courage and a sense of self in the process. Sarah will experience crushed hopes, betrayal, unrequited love, and ostracism before leaving Charleston to find her place alongside her fearless younger sister, Angelina, as one of the early pioneers in the abolition and women's rights movements. 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.
Subject Grimke, Sarah Moore, -- 1792-1873 Fiction.
General fiction
Historical -- Fiction.
Biographical fiction
Large type books
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