![]() Our book club moderator began by showing a few pictures of the Grimke sisters, Sarah and Angelina, who became celebrated abolitionists and suffragettes in early to mid 19th century America. “If you must err, do so on the side of audacity.” Sarah Grimke We follow their remarkable journeys over the next thirty-five 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. The Grimke’s daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women. Kidd’s sweeping novel is set in motion on Sarah’s eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership of ten year old Handful, who is to be her handmaid. Hetty “Handful” Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. Last Friday thirty women gathered to discuss Sue Monk Kidd‘s novel, The Invention of Wings. ![]()
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