The Invention of Wings

Hetty "Handful" Grimkae, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimkae household. The Grimkae's daughter Sarah has known from an early age she's meant to do something large in the world, but she's hemmed in by the limits imposed on women. On Sarah's eleventh birthday, she's given ownership of ten year old Handful, who's to be her handmaid. Over the next thirty-five years, both women 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.

Author: Sue Monk Kidd
Publisher: Large Print Press
Published: 05/05/2015
Pages: 652
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.70lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.50d
ISBN13: 9781594138867
ISBN10: 1594138869
Large Print
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | African American & Black | Historical