Invention of wings
Title
:
Invention of wings
Author
:
Kidd, Sue Monk author.
ISBN
:
9781490602707
Edition
:
Unabridged.
Publication Information
:
Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, [2014]
Physical Description
:
11 sound discs (13.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note
:
Compact discs.
Personal Subject
:
Grimké, Sarah Moore, 1792-1873
Subject Term
:
Antislavery movements -- Fiction.
Feminists -- South Carolina -- Fiction.
Women's rights -- Fiction.
African American women -- Fiction.
Genre
:
Audiobooks
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Added Author
:
Lamia, Jenna
Oduye, Adepero
Local Subject
:
Spoken compact disc collection.
Summary
:
The story follows Hetty 'Handful' Grimké, a Charleston slave, and Sarah, the daughter of the wealthy Grimké family. The novel begins on Sarah's eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership over Handful, who is to be her handmaid. We follow their remarkable journeys over the next 35 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.
Library | Call Number | Status |
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Oakdale Library | SCD FICTION KID 11 DISCS | Audiobooks Fiction |
Park Grove Library (Cottage Grove) | SCD FICTION KID 11 DISCS | Audiobooks Fiction |
R.H. Stafford Library (Woodbury) | SCD FICTION KID 11 DISCS | Audiobooks Fiction |