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The invention of wings : a novel Sue Monk Kidd.

Kidd, Sue Monk, (author).

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" -- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0670024783
  • ISBN: 9780670024780
  • Physical Description: 373 pages ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Viking, 2014.

Content descriptions

Target Audience Note:
920L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.3 19 164225.
Subject:
Grimké, Sarah, 1792-1873 > Fiction.
Antislavery movements > Fiction.
Feminists > South Carolina > Fiction.
Women's rights > Fiction.
Feminists.
Genre:
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.

Available copies

  • 156 of 169 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 5 of 5 copies available at Rutherford County Library System.

Holds

  • 1 current hold with 169 total copies.
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