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Books Read in 2015 (13) Historical Fiction (105) » 12 más Books Read in 2019 (161) Books Read in 2021 (582) Top Five Books of 2017 (627) Carole's List (215) Indie Next Picks (39) To Read (212) Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This book! There is so much good to be said here; let's start with the overall theme - slavery. Not a good subject, but in this novel by Sue Monk Kidd, it is brought to a level that all of us can understand. The story is broken into two distinct sections; (1) that of Sarah Grimke and her sister Angelina "Nina" is based on the author's research and retelling as well as fictionalizing these real sisters who, through a lifetime in a family of slave owners become advocates in real life for abolition as well as women's rights, and (2) Handful, the slave that Sarah was gifted on her eleventh birthday. The readers switch by chapter, between Sarah's life as an unwilling participant in a family of slave owners to Handful, Sarah's slave. Sarah takes the time to secretly teach Handful the rudimentary skills to read (before the two are found out and the lessons come to a painful halt) and does her best to befriend the young girl who is her same age. Sarah spends the book searching for ways to make slave life better and to show her family, and later the nation, how wrong slavery is. Handful shows the reader the toil and trauma, the physical tragedies endured by slaves. She also shows us the love of family, the bond that ties those in tragedy, and the willingness of a spirit to live free. The book is extremely well-crafted, unbelievably well-told, inexplicably touching, and equally heart-wrenching. During this past month of Black History (awareness), I have read several works by and about a piece of history that plagues me as a white American. If you are looking for an easy-to-read book about a difficult subject, The Invention of Wings is for you. If you are looking for a book about the human spirit, this book is for you. If you want to educate yourself without knowing you are doing so, The Invention of Wings is for you. We must all read books such as The Invention of Wings. We must all do our part to learn and grow from history to be better in the future. Engaging. Two women of the Grimke household, one a slave, the other a daughter, each with their own chapters side by side from childhoold to adulthood and narrating the progression to abolitionist status for Sarah Grimke and her sister Angelina, among the earliest femaile abolitionists and first feminists. The fictional Handful/Hetty has her own narrative of life in the Grimke household, with lots of dangerous adventures culminating in a final escape. I don't think the author's prose in this book was up to t other of her books, nonetheless it was absorbing and a page turner though quite distressing to read as the barbarism and cruelty of the treatment of slaves was laid out wihtout any sweetening -- at least I hope so.
Both Handful and Sarah are admirable characters, though rather disappointingly so. Improbable allies are most engaging when they make life hard for each other and generally it takes them a while to find their common pulse. But Sarah empathizes so completely with Handful from the very beginning that we never get to doubt their innate sisterhood. While their identities as mistress and slave imply conflict, it’s not a conflict played out between them. Handful’s rich resentment is rarely directed at Sarah. How could it be? The actual Sarah Grimké may have been as earnest and honorable as she is here, but a little less righteousness might have furnished this story with a wider wingspan. Contenido enTiene como estudio aTiene un comentario del texto enPremiosDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
"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"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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A powerful, sweeping novel, inspired by real events, and set in the American Deep South in the nineteenth century, The Invention of Wings evokes a world of shocking contrasts, of beauty and ugliness, of righteous people living daily with cruelty they fail to recognize; and celebrates the power of friendship and sisterhood against all the odds. (