The invention of wings

2014 Literary Reads

Let’s dive into this week’s examination of another best-seller’s first page. In this post we’re examining Sue Monk Kidd’s novel,...

I decided to read The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd after it popped up on Goodreads as a "mover & shaker." I of course had heard of The Secret Life of Bees, and The Mermaid Chair, but this book would end up being my first by Kidd, although probably not my last. The Situation: At eleven years old, Sarah Grimke would be given her very own slave. It is 1803 in Charleston, South Carolina, and Sarah lives with her plantation owning family and their many slaves. The one assigned to her is…

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The book builds on the true story of an abolitionist and the young “slave” she is given, against her wishes, for her birthday.

This powerful story about the relationship between Sarah Grimk and her household slave, Hetty.

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Start reading The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd, the story of two unforgettable American women

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The author of the latest Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection sounds off on her process for writing The Invention of Wings.

Charleston, November 1803. Sarah Grimké turns 11. Her birthday gift? A slave named Hetty ("Handful"). This sweeping novel tells the story—in alternating voices—of real-life abolitionist Sarah Grimké and the wholly imagined slave Handful through several decades and up and down the East Coast during a

The author of the latest Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection sounds off on her process for writing The Invention of Wings.

Look at those blue skies . . . and piles of snow! Temperatures are in the 50's. If it wasn't for all the snow, I'd think it was spring. Not here yet, though. Still snuggled up reading under a quilt. I just finished the remarkable new book by Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings. If you are a fan of The Secret Life of Bees, you will love her new novel set in Charleston, South Carolina in the early 1800's before the Civil War. Quilters will be pleased to know that there is a quilt theme, but…

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Angelina Grimké: Opposing Slavery Led Her to Women's Rights. Sarah and Angelina Grimké were two sisters, originally from a South Carolina slaveholding family, who spoke out on abolition of slavery.