The Invention of Wings is a biographical fiction novel. This one is written by Sue Monk Kidd. She is an American writer. Apart from The Invention of Kings, she is best known for her The Secret Life of Bees title. The Mermaid Chair is another good title by Sue Monk Kidd.
The audio narration of The Invention of Wings is done by Sue Monk Kidd, Jenna Lamia, and Adepero Oduye. It was a good performance where the narrators maintained excellent tone and rhythm throughout.
Hetty was an urban slave living in 19th-century Charleston. She was yearning to have a life beyond the walls that enclose her within the immensely rich household of Grimke. Sarah was the Grimke’s daughter who knew from an early age that she was destined to do something considerable in this world. But then she was restricted with her thoughts due to all of the different limitations imposed on women then.
The story is set in motion on the 11th birthday of Sarah and that was the time when she was given the ownership of 10 years old Hetty, who was supposed to be her handmaid. The listeners will follow their incredible journeys over the next three and a half decades as both of them strive to have a life of their own while drastically shaping the destinies of each other and setting up a complex kind of relationship. It was all marked with defiance, guilt, and estrangement along with the uneasy ways toward love.
The Invention of Wings tells a stunning story and it was performed with perfection. This will be an emotional story along with the show of courage and strength of women.
