#12 The Invention of Wings

#12 is one that took me longer than 3 weeks to read & I had to turn off my wireless to keep it today!  The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd was a compelling story of two sisters and their quest to end slavery.  It's told alternatingly from the older sister, Sarah's point of view, and a slave named Handful.  Both are trying to be free in a society that is set up to keep them imprisoned.  It was very interesting to me to learn that Sarah and her sister Nina were actual people & the major events in the story were factual.  Their work was highly influential to Harriet Beecher Stow & they seemed to have essentially started the women's movement in America.  I'd like to believe the novel ends happily ever after.  I believe Sue Monk Kidd believes the same thing.

Quotes:
p 8~ Everyone thought I was a plucky girl, but in truth, I wasn't as fearless as everyone assumed.  I had the temperament of a tortoise.  Whatever dread, fright, or bump appeared in my path, I wanted nothing more than to drop in my tracks and hide.  If you must err, do so on the side of audacity.

p 8 ~ ...she terrified us with tales of the Booga Hag--an old worman who rode about on a broom and sucked the breath from bad children.

fl: There was a time in Africa the people could fly. ll: We rode onto the shining water, onto the far distance.