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The Invention of Wings audiobook
- By: Sue Monk Kidd
- Narrator: Jenna Lamia
- Category: Fiction, Literary
- Length: 13 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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The Invention of Wings Audiobook Summary
From the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees, a magnificent novel about two unforgettable American women
Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the world—and it is now the newest Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 selection.
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.
As the stories build to a riveting climax, 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.
Inspired by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke, Kidd goes beyond the record to flesh out the rich interior lives of all of her characters, both real and invented, including Handful’s cunning mother, Charlotte, who courts danger in her search for something better.
This exquisitely written novel is a triumph of storytelling that looks with unswerving eyes at a devastating wound in American history, through women whose struggles for liberation, empowerment, and expression will leave no reader unmoved.
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The Invention of Wings Full Details
| Narrator | Jenna Lamia |
| Length | 13 hours 42 minutes |
| Author | Sue Monk Kidd |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | April 28, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780698151833 |
Subjects
The publisher of the The Invention of Wings is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: gifts for mom, pulitzer prize winners fiction, historical fiction, Charleston, South Carolina, Southern fiction, slavery, Sue Monk Kidd, suffragette, The Secret Life of Bees, The Mermaid Chair, cutting for stone, oprah book club, sue monk kidd books, secret life of bees, african american fiction, slavery books, african history, inventions, book club, ny time best sellers, books best sellers for women, ny times best sellers 2020, african american urban fiction, black authors, oprah's book club, oprahs book club, historical, Fiction, Literary, Fiction, Historical, Fiction, Biographical The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Literary
Additional info
The publisher of the The Invention of Wings is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Penguin Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780698151833.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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