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The Invention Of Wings (2014)

by Sue Monk Kidd(Favorite Author)

4.22 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0670024783 (ISBN13: 9780670024780)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Viking Adult

review 1: I enjoyed the last part of the book, but found the first couple hundred pages a bit of a slog. Both narrators are suffering but are unable to change their circumstances to any great degree, so the plot is a bit slow. I also grew a bit frustrated with the alternating narrators -- switching back and forth broke up the narrative flow. Nonetheless, this was a tremendous history lesson and a great opportunity to learn more about the Grimké sisters. And the end was certainly inspiring.
review 2: This is one of the most powerful, heartbreaking, real books I have read in a while about the slave trade in the 1800s. The inspiring part was realizing at the end that many of the main characters were real people who did make history- something I wish I had known before I ... morestarted reading it! I strongly encourage anyone who is willing to be uncomfortable with history to read this and be thrown back into a different world and be inspired by the resiliency of people. less

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