Foothills Book Club discussion

The Invention of Wings

The story of the evolution of an outspoken abolitionist and feminist around the time of the civil war. Portrays the horrors of slavery, which is a tough topic to get through, but ultimately, and uplifting book.

A historical novel, The Invention of Wings (2014), by Sue Monk Kidd, traces the intersecting lives of the abolitionist sisters, Sarah and Angelina Grimké, and Sarah’s slave, Hetty Handful Grimké. Spanning 35 years and set primarily in Charleston, South Carolina in the 1800s, the novel begins on Sarah’s 11th birthday, when Handful is given to her as a birthday present. It ends when Sarah helps Handful and her sister, Sky, escape slavery, and Sarah fulfills the promise she made years earlier to Handful’s mother—the promise to help Handful gain freedom. Nominated for the Goodreads Choice Awards Best Historical Fiction and the Audie Award for Fiction, the novel was also on the New York Times Best Seller list.

I've read this... it is very good!

I read it too and thought it was very good also. I took me a couple of tries to get through it because the depictions of slavery are truly brutal and I needed to be in the right mental place to get through that brutality in order to appreciate the rest of the book.