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The invention of wings / Sue Monk Kidd.

By: Kidd, Sue MonkMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: New York Viking 2014 Description: 373 pages ; 25 cmISBN: 9780670024780 (hardback)Subject(s): Grimké, Sarah Moore, 1792-1873 -- Fiction | Antislavery movements -- Fiction | Feminists -- South Carolina -- Fiction | Women's rights -- Fiction | FICTION / General | FICTION / HistoricalGenre/Form: Biographical fiction. | Historical fiction.DDC classification: FICTION KID LOC classification: PS3611.I44 | I58 2014Other classification: FIC000000 | FIC019000 | FIC014000 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"--
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"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"--

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