5/29/2023 0 Comments The invention of wings author![]() ![]() ![]() Sarah was twelve when Hetty (Handful, according to the name her mother gave her) was gifted to her as her birthday gift. We follow the lives of these two women from 1803 to 1838. According to Wikipedia, growing up, Sarah Grimké was close to her enslaved servant Hetty and Sue Monk Kidd chose to write her novel with two voices, Sarah’s and Hetty’s. She moved up North, became a Quaker, an abolitionist and the mother of the women’s suffrage movement. Her family belonged to the local aristocracy. The Invention of Wings is based upon the life of Sarah Moore Grimké (1792-1873), who was the daughter of a rich planter, attorney and judge in South Carolina. Sue Monk Kidd is a white writer from Charleston, South Carolina. I’m like the girl scout of reading, always ready! ![]() ![]() Then, The Invention of Wings was on display in historic houses gift shops in Savannah and Charleston and I looked it up only to find out I already had it with me, on my Kindle. My mom had raved upon her other book, The Secret Life of Bees, which pushed me to blindly download The Invention of Wings when it was on sale on the Kindle store, not knowing what it was about but willing to try her as a writer. Different roads converging into one led me to The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd. ![]()
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