by Sue Monk Kidd · Unknown · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781472231161
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«The Invention of Wings» is the historical novel by Sue Monk Kidd, published by Tinder Press in paperback (437 pages, in English).
Novel inspired by real events about Sarah Grimké and Hetty 'Handful' Grimké, a young enslaved girl given to Sarah on her eleventh birthday. Set in the nineteenth-century American South, it alternates their voices to show oppression, the struggle for freedom, and the bond between two women from opposite worlds.
The novel won the Florida Book Award in the general fiction category and was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for historical fiction and the Dublin Literary Award.
For book clubs and readers of historical and literary fiction, with a story based on real nineteenth-century women.
Sue Monk Kidd is an American writer from Sylvester, Georgia. She is best known for her historical novels, which frequently deal with themes of race, feminism, and religion and include The Secret Life of Bees and The Book of Longings.
