01551cam a2200361u 4500 849719161 20190501233642.0 ta 140205s2014 nyu 000 1deng 2013028185 9780670024780 (hardback) 0670024783 (hardback) (OCoLC)849719161 pcc 813/.6 23 K5317 .i Kidd, Sue Monk The invention of wings Sue Monk Kidd New York : Viking, 2014 373 pages ; 25 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier "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 Grimk,̌ Sarah Moore, 1792-1873 Fiction Antislavery movements Fiction Feminists South Carolina Fiction Women's rights Fiction Biographical fiction Historical fiction 2 24006 24006 0 0 ABELJ abelj AF 2017-01-19 2 KIDD 34386 2019-05-07 2019-05-07 27.95 2017-01-19 BOOK