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July 2, 2014

Announcing the Book Club for July

Invention of WingsThanks to everyone who participated in our discussion about This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage, which we discussed here. Congratulations to Megan for winning a free book!

And now . . . announcing the next book club! We’ll be reading The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd.

Here’s the description from the author’s site:

From the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees: a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the world.

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 Grimkes’ daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is mean to do something large in the world, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women.

Sue Monk Kidd’s sweeping new novel is set in motion on Sarah’s eleventh birthday in 1803, when she is given ownership of ten-year-old Handful, who is to be her waiting maid. 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 in part by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke, Kidd goes beyond the record to flesh out the rich interior lives of all her characters, both real and invented, including Handful’s cunning mother, Charlotte, who courts danger in search of something better, and Charlotte’s lover, Denmark Vesey, a charismatic free black man who is planning insurrection.

This exquisitely written novel is a triumph of storytelling that looks with unswerving eyes at one of the most devastating wounds in American history, through women whose struggles for liberation, empowerment, and expression will leave no reader unmoved.

We will discuss this book at the end of August.

{Remember, there will be a free book giveaway for one lucky commenter!}

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Discussion

  1. katara says

    July 2, 2014 at 8:07 am

    I am in!

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    • Stephanie says

      July 2, 2014 at 1:52 pm

      Yay! I can’t wait to hear what you think, Katara.

      Reply
  2. Lynne Fondell says

    July 2, 2014 at 9:52 pm

    Sounds like a great book ~ I will try to read it so I can join the discussion!

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    • Stephanie says

      July 8, 2014 at 8:00 am

      Great, Lynne! We’d love to have you join us!

      Reply
  3. Lynne Fondell says

    July 23, 2014 at 10:32 pm

    My first time joining the book club, when does it begin? i am almost done with the book.

    Reply
    • Judy Larson says

      August 5, 2014 at 9:28 am

      I definitely want to read this book

      Reply

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    August 12, 2014 at 7:57 pm

    […] . we’ll be discussing The Invention of Wings on August 29. See the post that introduces the book here. Hope you can add your voice to the […]

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