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From the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees, a magnificent novel about two unforgettable American women.
Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the world - and it is now the newest Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 selection.
Hetty “Handful” Grimke, an urban 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.
Kidd’s sweeping novel is set in motion on Sarah’s eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership of ten year old Handful, who is to be her handmaid. We follow their remarkable journeys over the next thirty five years, as both strive for a life of their own, dramatically shaping each other’s destinies and forming a complex relationship marked by guilt, defiance, estrangement and the uneasy ways of love.
As the stories build to a riveting climax, Handful will endure loss and sorrow, finding courage and a sense of self in the process. Sarah will experience crushed hopes, betrayal, unrequited love, and ostracism before leaving Charleston to find her place alongside her fearless younger sister, Angelina, as one of the early pioneers in the abolition and women’s rights movements.
Inspired by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke, Kidd goes beyond the record to flesh out the rich interior lives of all of her characters, both real and invented, including Handful’s cunning mother, Charlotte, who courts danger in her search for something better.
This exquisitely written novel is a triumph of storytelling that looks with unswerving eyes at a devastating wound in American history, through women whose struggles for liberation, empowerment, and expression will leave no reader unmoved.
Reseñas de la Crítica
“A remarkable novel that heightened my sense of what it meant to be a woman - slave or free... a conversation changer.” (Oprah Winfrey, O, The Oprah Magazine)
“Exhilarating...powerful...By humanizing these formidable women, The Invention of Wings furthers our essential understanding of what has happened among us as Americans - and why it still matters.” (The Washington Post)
“A textured masterpiece, quietly yet powerfully poking our consciences and our consciousness... leaves us feeling uplifted and hopeful.” (NPR)
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, Margaret Mitchell's great novel of the South is one of the most popular books ever written. Within six months of its publication in 1936, Gone With the Wind had sold a million copies. To date, it has been translated into 25 languages, and more than 28 million copies have been sold. Here are the characters that have become symbols of passion and desire....
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- De dallas en 12-08-09
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Ember Island
- De: Kimberley Freeman
- Narrado por: Jennifer Vuletic
- Duración: 13 h y 9 m
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A compelling tale of two women separated by a century who discover long-buried secrets in an Australian manor house. In 1891, Tilly Kirkland is reeling with shock and guilt after her tempestuous marriage ends in horrific circumstances. Fleeing to the farthest place she knows, Tilly takes a job on Ember Island in Moreton Bay, Australia, where she becomes the governess to the prison superintendent's precocious young daughter, Nell.
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Not her best book
- De Beth en 05-02-18
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March
- De: Geraldine Brooks
- Narrado por: Richard Easton
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
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From Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has animated the character of the absent father, March, and crafted a story "filled with the ache of love and marriage and with the power of war upon the mind and heart of one unforgettable man" (Sue Monk Kidd). With "pitch-perfect writing" (USA Today), Brooks follows March as he leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause in the Civil War. His experiences will utterly change his marriage and challenge his most ardently held beliefs.
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Great book, greatly narrated
- De Paula en 07-30-06
De: Geraldine Brooks
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The House Girl
- A Novel
- De: Tara Conklin
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 14 h y 42 m
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The year is 2004: Lina Sparrow is an ambitious young lawyer working on a historic class-action lawsuit seeking reparations for the descendants of American slaves. The year is 1852: Josephine is a 17-year-old house slave who tends to the mistress of a Virginia tobacco farm - an aspiring artist named Lu Anne Bell. It is through her father, renowned artist Oscar Sparrow, that Lina discovers a controversy rocking the art world: Art historians now suspect that the revered paintings of Lu Anne Bell, an antebellum artist known for her humanizing portraits of the slaves who worked her Virginia tobacco farm, were actually the work of her house slave, Josephine.
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Disappointing
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De: Tara Conklin
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The Optimist's Daughter
- De: Eudora Welty
- Narrado por: Eudora Welty
- Duración: 3 h y 59 m
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This story of a young woman's confrontation with death and her past is a poetic study of human relations.
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Beautiful writing
- De Teresa en 07-15-13
De: Eudora Welty
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Mary
- Mrs. A. Lincoln
- De: Janis Cooke Newman
- Narrado por: Anne Buelteman
- Duración: 26 h y 33 m
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A fascinating and intimate novel of the life of Mary Todd Lincoln, narrated by the First Lady herself. Mary Todd Lincoln is one of history's most misunderstood and enigmatic women. She was a political strategist, a supporter of emancipation, and a mother who survived the loss of three children and the assassination of her beloved husband. She also ran her family into debt, held séances in the White House, and was committed to an insane asylum - which is where Janis Cooke Newman's debut novel begins.
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Intriguing and well-written, Worst editing EVER.
- De Danielle en 03-21-15
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Angel of Harlem
- De: Kuwanna Haulsey
- Narrado por: Brenda Pressley
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
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Inspired by the extraordinary events of Dr. May Chinn’s life, Angel of Harlem is a deeply affecting story of love and transcendence. Weaving seamlessly scenes from the battlefields of the Civil War, during which her father escaped from slavery, to the Harlem living rooms and kitchen tables where May is sometimes forced to operate on her patients, this fascinating novel lays bare the heart of a woman who changed the face of medicine.
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Really Enjoyed!
- De Amazon Customer en 08-08-19
De: Kuwanna Haulsey
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Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories
- De: Kelly Link - editor, Gavin J. Grant - editor
- Narrado por: Sarah Coomes, Nico Evers-Swindell, Shannon McManus, y otros
- Duración: 12 h y 46 m
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Imagine an alternate universe where romance and technology reign. Where tinkerers and dreamers craft and recraft a world of automatons, ornate clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that. Where scientists and schoolgirls, fair folk and Romans, intergalactic bandits, and intrepid orphans - decked out in corsets, clockwerk suits, and tall black boots - solve dastardly crimes, escape from monstrous predicaments, consult oracles, and hover over volcanoes in steam-powered airships.
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MMMM, Orca Bacon
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 09-14-13
De: Kelly Link - editor, y otros
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The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
- De: Eudora Welty
- Narrado por: Barbara Rosenblat, Jessica Almasy, Victor Bevine, y otros
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This complete collection includes all of the published stories of Eudora Welty. There are 41 stories in all, including those in the earlier collections A Curtain of Green, The Wide Net, The Golden Apples, and The Bride of the Innisfallen, as well as previously uncollected stories.
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Too Good For Audio
- De Yennta en 06-18-12
De: Eudora Welty
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The Promise
- De: Ann Weisgarber
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
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1900. Young pianist Catherine Wainwright flees the fashionable town of Dayton, Ohio in the wake of a terrible scandal. Heartbroken and facing destitution, she finds herself striking up correspondence with a childhood admirer, the recently widowed Oscar Williams. In desperation she agrees to marry him, but when Catherine travels to Oscar's farm on Galveston Island, Texas—a thousand miles from home—she finds she is little prepared for the life that awaits her.
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Beautifully written and read
- De RueRue en 04-21-14
De: Ann Weisgarber
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Flame Tree Road
- De: Shona Patel
- Narrado por: Neil Shah
- Duración: 10 h y 27 m
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India, 1870s. In a tiny village where society is ruled by a caste system and women are defined solely by marriage, young Biren Roy dreams of forging a new destiny. When his mother suffers the fate of widowhood - shunned by her loved ones and forced to live in solitary penance - Biren devotes his life to effecting change.
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Riveting Love Story
- De Granny en 01-15-20
De: Shona Patel
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The Thread Collectors
- A Novel
- De: Shaunna J. Edwards, Alyson Richman
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
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1863: In a small Creole cottage in New Orleans, an ingenious young Black woman named Stella embroiders intricate maps on repurposed cloth to help enslaved men flee and join the Union Army. Bound to a man who would kill her if he knew of her clandestine activities, Stella has to hide not only her efforts but her love for William, a Black soldier and a brilliant musician.
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Extremely good!
- De Doodle slave en 07-02-23
De: Shaunna J. Edwards, y otros
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Jack Maggs
- De: Peter Carey
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 13 h y 26 m
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With scars on his back and silver in his pocket, the huge figure of Jack Maggs strides across the rich landscape of 19th century London. As this enigmatic man moves through its streets and houses, his single-minded quest to find his son will engender love, deceit, and vengeance in the lives around him.
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Jack Maggs
- De Kathleen en 04-04-05
De: Peter Carey
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The Irish Healer
- A Novel
- De: Nancy Herriman
- Narrado por: Amanda McKnight
- Duración: 8 h
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1830s London is rich with promise ... and fraught with peril. Rachel Dunne and James Edmunds are about to discover that love is too. Rachel Dunne has always been a healer ... until she’s accused of causing the death of a child under her care. Acquitted but shunned, she flees Ireland in search of a new life, convinced that she’ll be fine so long as no one in London learns of her disgrace - or forces her to ever sit at another sickbed.
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- De Wendy en 07-06-12
De: Nancy Herriman
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Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer is close to "aging out" out of the foster care system. A community-service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping Molly out of juvie and worse.... As she helps Vivian sort through her possessions and memories, Molly learns that she and Vivian aren’t as different as they seem to be. A young Irish immigrant orphaned in New York City, Vivian was put on a train to the Midwest with hundreds of other children whose destinies would be determined by luck and chance.
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When beautiful, reckless Southern belle Zelda Sayre meets F. Scott Fitzgerald at a country club dance in 1918, she is seventeen years old and he is a young army lieutenant stationed in Alabama. Before long, the "ungettable" Zelda has fallen for him despite his unsuitability: Scott isn't wealthy or prominent or even a Southerner, and keeps insisting, absurdly, that his writing will bring him both fortune and fame. Her father is deeply unimpressed.
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Historical Fiction - beautifully quilted!
The Invention of Wings is written in two voices. The first - Sarah Grimke, daughter of a wealthy judge and plantation owner in Charleston, North Carolina. Sarah and her sister Angelina are directly from history, well known as early abolitionists and women's right activists... you can easily read about them on the internet, but don't until you finish the book.
The second voice - "Handful" or Hettie, the 9 year old slave girl who is given to Sarah for her 11th birthday present. The book follows both girls... for 35 years... as Hettie's mostly fictional life is stitched alongside Sarah's mostly factual life. The two voices compare and contrast in a patchwork I found beautiful.
The audio is really good, but I have to tell you after listening to "The Help" so many times Jenna's voice would occasionally break the spell and I would see "Skeeter" in my mind instead of Sarah.
At the end Sue Monk Kidd explains her research, what parts are historically accurate and where she has taken liberties... made it even more meaningful. A life quilt is pieced during the book by Hettie's mother, but I can picture the book itself as a quilted story... of reaching, losing, dreaming and becoming.
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- 01-27-14
A Masterpiece!
As a white girl who went to school in rural Southern Ohio I had never met a dark-skinned person until the mid-60’s, mainly because we were terribly poor and, therefore, did not get out much unless we traveled with the band, and, later I, as a cheerleader. From age 8 until age 17, I had never traveled to the nearest adjacent town 10 miles away until our school band was invited to participate in a parade. So, even though I had seen them, I had never actually met a Negro, as they were then called, until after I was married, with children, and introduced to a lady who was my mother’s best friend, and thought nothing of it when Mother told me she was having Thanksgiving dinner with her friend’s family.
A very compassionate person, I had watched Roots and, later listened to it on Audible. I concluded that every child should have Roots as a requirement in middle school. Then I both read and listened to The Help. Recognizing the time was set around the 50’s, when I was a teenager, I remembered a time when my grandmother took me on a trip on a Greyhound bus, and noticed the dark-skinned people sitting in the back of the bus. I was neither surprised nor indignant; that’s just the way it was. Also, neither did I feel surprise when the male employees made more than the females because “they had families to provide for”. I never questioned that or the off-color "jokes" they told.
I never thought about a man picking up ANYTHING after himself until Phil Donohue talked about how he picked up his socks after himself, and did not leave them for his wife to do. That was the beginning of my conscientiousness about female inequality.
I have watched the entire cycle of enlightenment about the male/female roles, and much of the dark skin/light skin roles change over the last 60+ years. I got most of my education from TV as I Spy was the first series that featured a black male in a co-starring role. That was back when a dark skinned person could not even touch the hand, arm, etc of any white female on TV, let alone look at her lasciviously. No, darlings, that was not back in the 1800’s, but was just when I was married with young children, in the 60’s, after quitting my 3rd year in college because I got married, knowing it was what society expected of me, pre-dating my wedding day after my boyfriend and I got married in secret, and before I started to “show”.
I watched as TV ads morphed from the “he” ads (What will the doctor say when he sees your son’s leg?” to “What will your doctor say when she sees your daughter‘s leg?”) Within a few short years or decades this kind of advertising has, in my opinion, made the white male the most handicapped of all the sexes and races. Within the last 3-4 years I have heard my 3 grandsons (from 3 different families and areas) remark that girls were smarter than boys! (Oh, the pendulum swings.)
Now, I am a hard working great-grandma working with hundreds of dark skinned emigrants, trying to make life a bit simpler/easier for them. I love the path my life has taken, due, in most part to the conscience-raising in my life from many sources.
Therefore, I wish to thank you from the bottom of my heart, Ms. Kidd, for researching and writing about these 3 wonderful Southern women who were ready to give their life or make it their life’s work to somehow make it better for thousands, millions of unborn people that they could never have envisioned. It makes me weep for all the unfortunates “out there” who actually have given their very lifeblood, and who still do, come to think it, many times on a global theatre.
This is a Masterpiece, and should be required reading for all middle school children!
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- 01-15-14
Soul Touching
This book really touched my soul with the flawless depiction of slavery in the south. I can't think of anything Sue Monk Kidd's written that I didn't love and The Invention of Wings is not an exception. I was swept into the Charlestonian era as soon as the first words were uttered and I was literally captivated throughout this poignant story of hope and hopelessness. I would highly recommend sinking into the depths of this epic novel.
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- Sandra
- 02-02-14
BREAKING THE SHACKLES THAT BIND A WOMAN
It has been many years since I've enjoyed a novel as much as this. It is a story that make you cringe, but cannot bear to not contine until the end. Beautifully written and narrated. No one can listen to this story without feeling it's power or cheering these brave women who, in spite of the odds, bravely strove to bring their story to a world who dismissed females as not being worthy of contributing to, change in this country.
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- RueRue
- 09-22-17
Good blending of history and fiction
This is a good story, using a real person, Sara Grimke, as the basis for a look at slavery in pre-Civil War Charleston. Sara's desire for freedom from the constraints of Southern society for women ( limited education, no oppertunity for a career outside the home) is contrasted with her waiting girl, Handful, who yearns for freedom from the life of a slave. The author has done plenty of research and quite successfully woven the facts into the fictional lives of the two main characters. Both narrators were very good.
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- Grace
- 03-04-14
I LOVED this book !
If I'd been reading the hard copy I would have sat in a chair and not gotten up till I'd finished it. But, I'm glad I chose the audio version -- the two narrators were perfect and I felt as though Sarah & Handful were telling me their stories. Between my iPad and iPhone, I listened to it at home and in the car, once forgetting an errand because I was so into the story. In the last chapter the author narrates the background for her coming to this story -- it's being based on real Charleston sisters, Sarah & Angelina Grimke, who lived in the early-mid 19th century. Ms. Kidd weaves a compelling story of their lives as southern children, daughters, women -- women of conscience, women who evolve, along with a Grimke slave, Handful, who is about Sarah's age. Her mother sets an example for Handful of finding ways no matter one's situation, to value one's self and to take risks that are just and right. An excellent book, an excellent audio book!
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- KHT
- 01-21-14
Great Novel to read over MLK, Jr. Weekend!
What made the experience of listening to The Invention of Wings the most enjoyable?
Just finished The Invention of Wings: A Novel by Sue Monk Kidd (author of The Secret Life of Bees). I LOVED this book and what a great read during Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday weekend! I have enjoyed Ms. Kidd's writing for over thirty years ....she first wrote short articles in Guideposts, moved on to wonderful books on spirituality and feminism and then to novels. This novel is based on two real women, the Grimke sisters. After having been raised in Charleston in a family of fourteen children, the sisters developed their anti-slavery views and became Quakers and active members of the abolitionist movement in the early part of the 19th century. Ms. Kidd adds a carefully crafted character who is a young woman owned by the Grimke family and that storyline interspersed with the real-life sisters produces powerful storytelling. Having been raised a Quaker, I particularly enjoyed visits with Lucretia Mott and discussions on John Woolman as integral parts of the story. Buy a copy, download it to your Kindle, or listen to it as an audiobook as I did and I think you'll be profoundly moved.
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- Kolsey
- 09-22-15
Author writes with deep empathy!
Everyone should read this book!! We are all equal! I am ashamed this happened here!
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- Used book lover
- 09-22-18
Amazing, illuminating historical novel
I loved it! I knew nothing about the Grimke sisters or their history as fiery abolitionists and women's rights advocates in the Antebellum period.
The novel kept me totally engaged at every level, and I came to love, admire, respect, and root for Sarah, Charlotte, Nina, Handful, and Sky.
I really didn't want it to end, but author's note at end helped... meticulously researched.
Recommend to anyone who enjoys great historical novels about real people.
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- annette
- 04-19-15
I loved this book! Narration was stellar as well!
If this were hardcopy, it would be a permanent addition to my bookshelf! The characters and scenes were described in a way that created a clear and vivid picture in my mind, more than once bringing me to tears. Beautifully written and narrated.
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