The invention of wings
(Large Print - Hardback)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 641).

"Hetty 'Handful' Grimke, a slave in early-nineteenth-century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. 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. On Sarah's eleventh birthday, she is given ownership of ten-year-old Handful, who is to be her handmaid. In their remarkable journeys over the next thirty-five years, both strive for a life of their own, shaping each other's destinies and forming a complex relationship marked by guilt, defiance, estrangement and the uneasy ways of love"--Back cover.

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