About the Book: Invention Of Wings
Sarah Grimké is the middle daughter. Her mother says shes difficult and her
father says shes remarkable. On Sarahs eleventh birthday, Hetty Handful Grimké
is taken from the slave quarters she shares with her mother, wrapped in lavender
ribbons, and presented to Sarah as a gift. Sarah knows that what she does next
will unleash a world of trouble. She also knows that she cannot accept another
person as a present. And so, indeed, the trouble begins ...A powerful, sweeping
novel, inspired by real events, and set in the American Deep South in the
nineteenth century, The Invention of Wings