**From the celebrated author of *The Secret Life of Bees*, a *New York Times* bestselling novel about two unforgettable American women.** Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to
The Invention of Wings
β Scribed by Sue Monk Kidd
- Publisher
- Penguin Group US
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 267 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
From the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees, a magnificent novel about two unforgettable American women
Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the worldβand it is now the newest Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection.
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...
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