Book Bags: a book club

Welcome to our new Book Club organized by community members. The club will meet the 1st Friday of each month @ 2 p.m.
August book: "Invention of Wings"  by Sue Monk Kidd

Synopsis: taken from www.amazon.comFrom the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees, a #1 New York Times bestselling novel about two unforgettable American women.Writing
at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd
presents 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 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 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.Image from: https://bookshelffantasies.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/invention-of-win…