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The invention of wings

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"--

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  • ISBN: 9780670024780 (hardcover) :
  • Physical Description: print
    373 pages ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Viking, [2014]

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General Note:
"Oprah's Book Club 2.0"--Cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.

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Subject: Grimké, Sarah Moore 1792-1873 Fiction
Antislavery movements Fiction
Feminists South Carolina Fiction
Women's rights Fiction
Genre: Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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