The
invention of wings
Kidd, Sue Monk
creator
author.
text
Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.
enk
2014
monographic
eng
373 pages ; 24 cm.
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.
adult
Sue Monk Kidd.
Grimké, Sarah Moore
1792-1873
Fiction
Feminists
South Carolina
Fiction
Women's rights
Fiction
Antislavery movements
Fiction
Slaves
Fiction
Women
Fiction
Friendship
Fiction
Betrayal
Fiction
Southern States
History
19th century
Fiction
813.6
9781472212740
9781472212757
NLGGC
131002
20201224133256.0
000052366147
eng