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2014

Format:	Book
Author:	Kidd, Sue Monk.
Title:	The invention of wings : a novel / Sue Monk Kidd.
Publisher, Date:	New York : Viking, 2014.
Description:	373 pages ; 25 cm.
Summary:	"The story follows 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Audience	920L Lexile
Notes:	Accelerated Reader UG 6.3 19 19 164225 Oprah Book Club Section
Subjects:	Grimké, Sarah Moore, 1792-1873 -- Fiction. Antislavery movements -- Fiction. Feminists -- South Carolina -- Fiction. Women's rights -- Fiction.
Genre:	Biographical fiction. Fiction. Historical fiction. Biographical fiction. Historical fiction. Biographical fiction. Historical fiction.
LCCN:	2013028185
ISBN:	9780670024780 (hardback) 0670024783 (hardback)
Other Number:	849719161
System Availability:	30
Current Holds:	0
Control Number:	1102531

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Sue Monk Kidd is the award-winning and bestselling author of the novels The Secret Life of Bees and The Mermaid Chair. She is also the author of several acclaimed memoirs, including the New York Times bestseller Traveling with Pomegranates, written with her daughter Ann Kidd Taylor. She lives in Florida. - (Penguin Putnam)

Sue Monk Kidd is the award-winning and bestselling author of the novels The Secret Life of Bees and The Mermaid Chair. She is also the author of several acclaimed memoirs, including the New York Times bestseller Traveling with Pomegranates, written with her daughter Ann Kidd Taylor. She lives in Florida. - (Random House, Inc.)

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