The invention of wings

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The work The invention of wings represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The invention of wings

Statement of responsibility

Sue Monk Kidd

Creator

• trueKidd, Sue Monk

Author

• trueKidd, Sue Monk

Subject

• Biographical fiction
• Feminists -- South Carolina -- Fiction
• Friendship -- Fiction
• Grimke, Sarah Moore, 1792-1873 -- Fiction
• trueHistorical fiction
• Slaves -- Fiction
• Antislavery movements -- Fiction
• Women -- Fiction
• Women's rights -- Fiction
• Southern States -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
• Betrayal -- Fiction

Genre

• Historical fiction
• Fiction
• Biographical fiction

Language

eng

Summary

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

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adult