The Invention of Wings
Registered by tabby-cat-owner of Bellingham, Washington USA on 9/7/2016
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2 journalers for this copy...
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.
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.
Journal Entry 2 by tabby-cat-owner at Goodwill - 7th Street And Thunderbird Road in Phoenix, Arizona USA on Thursday, April 4, 2019
Released 5 yrs ago (4/4/2019 UTC) at Goodwill - 7th Street And Thunderbird Road in Phoenix, Arizona USA
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This book has been donated to the Goodwill.
Fantastic read from many perspectives.