EAN: 9781472222183

KIDD SUE MONK - GEBRAUCHT THE INVENTION OF WING...

Sarah Grimké is the middle daughter. The one her mother calls difficult and her father calls
remarkable. On Sarah's eleventh birthday  Hetty 'Handful' Grimké is taken from the slave
quarters she shares with her mother  wrapped in lavender ribbons  and presented to Sarah as a
gift. Sarah knows what she does next will unleash a world of trouble. She also knows that she
cannot accept. And so  indeed  the trouble begins ...   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 recognise  and celebrates the power of friendship and
sisterhood against all the odds.

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