The Invention of Wings

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  • Florida Book Award for General Fiction - Gold (2014)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2014)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2016)
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The Invention of Wings

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ISBN: 9781472222183
Authors: Sue Monk Kidd
Publisher: Tinder press
Date of Publication: 2014-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction
Goodreads rating: 4.25
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From the celebrated author of the international bestseller The Secret Life of Bees comes an extraordinary novel about two exceptional women.Sarah Grimké is the middle daughter. The one her mother calls difficult and her father calls remarkable. On Sarah's eleventh birthday, Hetty 'Handful' Grimké is taken from the slave quarters she shares with her mother, wrapped in lavender ribbons, and presented to Sarah as a gift. Sarah knows what she does next will unleash a world of trouble. She also knows that she cannot accept. And so, indeed, the trouble begins ... A powerful, sweeping novel, inspired by real events, and set in the American Deep South in the nineteenth century, The Invention of Wings evokes a world of shocking contrasts, of beauty and ugliness, of righteous people living daily with cruelty they fail to recognize; and celebrates the power of friendship and sisterhood against all the odds.
 

  • Florida Book Award for General Fiction - Gold (2014)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2014)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2016)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.