01485cam a2200313 i 4500 345727054 TxAuBib 20140103120000.0 130814s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2013028185 9780670024780 0670024783 DLC eng rda DLC TxAuBib rda Kidd, Sue Monk. The invention of wings / Sue Monk Kidd. New York : Viking, 2014. 373 pages. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Follows the story of Hetty "Handful" Grimke, a Charleston slave, and Sarah, the daughter of the wealthy Grimke family. The novel begins on Sarah's eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership over Handful, who is to be her handmaid. "The Invention of Wings" follows the next thirty-five years of their lives. Inspired in part by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke (a feminist, suffragist and, importantly, an abolitionist), Kidd allows herself to go beyond the record to flesh out the inner lives of all the characters, both real and imagined. 20140108. Grimké, Sarah Moore 1792-1873 Fiction. Antislavery movements Fiction. Feminists South Carolina Fiction. Women's rights Fiction. Biographical fiction. Historical fiction.