The Invention of Wings in Clean Reads

Aug 09, 2017 Marla rated it really liked it

Shelves: adult, zz-2017, historical-fiction, book-club, girl-power, oprah, award-winner

One of the few books where I liked both POVs equally and often you got two perspectives of the same incident.

I was surprised that I had never heard of the Grimke sisters before this book. I didn't realize that they were feminists as well as abolitionists and based on real sisters. Since history is written by the victors, I would think they would be remembered, but I guess that is a testament to the feeling against feminism at that time.

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* Quilting and sewing
* Charlotte being valuable as a ...more

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Nov 03, 2015 Camille Erickson rated it really liked it

Great historical fiction. I was half way through the book before I realized one of the main characters was a real person. Made the story even better.

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Nov 29, 2023 Kim rated it really liked it

A great historical fiction of two sisters, of slavery, and the abolition.

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Jul 22, 2014 Danica rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 5-stars

Wow. I loved this book. Kidd is an amazing author. I purposely didn't read the summary, so I didn't realize until the author's notes at the end that this novel is based on real people, and Kidd stuck to the facts in lots of ways. So many things to think about, and I loved how so many complicated feelings and points of view were captured. There is about a half a page of sexual content that wasn't gratuitous and that I didn't find offensive (and I'm a prude). The Grimke sisters were pretty amazing ...more

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