The Invention of Wings - Large Print Author:Sue Monk Kidd 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... more » by the limits imposed on women.
On Sarah’s eleventh birthday, she is given ownership of 10 year-old Handful, who is to be her handmaid.
Their journeys over the next 35 years, as both strive for a life of their own, dramatically shape each other’s destinies and forming a complex relationship marked by guilt, defiance, estrangement, and the uneasy ways of love.
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.« less