sunny_reader_girl 's review for:

The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

5.0

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I wouldn't expect anything but great writing from Sue Monk Kidd and this book certainly didn't disappoint. I enjoyed it from beginning to end. There were some paragraphs I had to re-read once or even twice because of how thrilling or moving the prose was! Telling the story of the Grimke sisters, namely Sarah Grimke, who were pioneers in the abolition movement and women's rights movement, this story traces roughly 30 years of their history. The book has a dual narrative and the other narrator was Sarah's slave that her mother gave her on her 11th birthday, Handful. Handful's story is told just as beautifully as Sarah's and it was striking the difference in Handful's world than that of the white slaveholders. It was a cruel and violent world, one that Sarah was fully aware of and fully determined to end, despite her family's position and history. There is a great "for further reading" list at the end that I plan on diving into now!