August 2026 Book - "THE INVENTION OF WINGS" by SUE MONK KIDD

Goodreads Choice Award From the celebrated author of the international bestseller The Secret Life of Bees comes an
extraordinary novel about two exceptional women.Sarah Grimké is the middle daughter. The one her mother calls difficult and
her father calls remarkable. On Sarah's 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 what she does next will unleash a
world of trouble. She also knows that she cannot accept. 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 evokes a world
of shocking contrasts, of beauty and ugliness, of righteous people living daily with cruelty they fail to recognize; and celebrates
the power of friendship and sisterhood against all the odds.