ASIN: B0178OF9O2
Publisher: unknown
Pages: 40
The Invention Of Wings: An Incredible Summary!The Invention of Wings is a book written by Sue Monk Kidd. The novel itself is about a girl named Hetty (nicknamed ‘Handful’) and her troubled life as a slave in the early nineteenth century in Charleston, where Hetty is desperately wanting and waiting for a better life than the one she lives now. Kidd’s novel begins on the eleventh birthday of Sarah Grimke. She received her gift, and as her gift, she got Hetty, a ten-year-old girl, who was intended to be her handmaid. We follow the life of Hetty through the course of thirty five years, as she struggled for freedom and destiny, which was very often filled with estrangement, guilt and sorrow. Perhaps, the best thing about this novel is that the author referred to a real, historical person of Sarah Grimke, and did a fine job in combining events of Sarah’s real life and fictional events, which ...
