Between The Lines - Volume 11 - Issue 6 June 2014 | Page 6

Page 6 Between the Lines Recommended Read Contributing Reader: Jay Newsham T Look for it in our catalogue!!! http://search.prl.ab.ca/client/armh he Invention of Wings Or scan Written By: Sue Monk Kidd the code to © 2014 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 reserve your copy 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 . **To become a Contributing Reader email: [email protected]** Summer Reading Club 2014 Thur sday ning s: Tw Lear (13-1 kids n een 8 yrs ds-o ring the Han ) com /Teen ta join ays: es) B rience keov e in us fo Mond . (All Ag er!! grab xpe e s r cre & a bo activ e sta ation a book ative St ok ities activ ly th get from nter m every to emed & ni in 2-4 P s-o 2-4p hand M ur from o pen !! O tions s& Frid raft k!! a e oins :C s J we Frid ys: Mo sday -12 yrs) Tue ne a v nd sda Wed ns!!! (6 mov y we’ ie Da ys: fts a yrs) y ll b tio cra i Join Story e s !!!! Eve Crea the e for med T cra pm he ho the me ry ft @ us for ime! (2 for t from 2-4 !!! we wing -7 us a st 2PM ekl a ory ions ! eve y and reat ry w c k!! ee eek ch w ! ea