The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd narrated by, Jenna
Lamia & Adepero Oduye
I maybe shouldn’t have started this one so soon after
finishing The Wedding Gift because there were some similarities, but this book
was different in that Sarah Grimke was a real person. The other similarity
between The Wedding Gift and this book was the slave, Handful, was always
hoping to escape she and her mama saved money so that they could finally get
away and be free. But of course things don’t work out as hoped.
Sarah was so far ahead of her time that when she was gifted
a slave on her 12th birthday she asked her daddy for remuneration paper so she
could free said slave when she turned of age. As she grew older she was also
not only an abolitionist but also suffragette at this time in our country's
history these two and hand-in-hand.
There were times in this book when I wanted something happy
to happen, just anything even a tiny thing but it never did. But this is
probably more true to the real circumstances of these women’s lives.
I love Sue Monk Kidd’s writing and this was a good story if
not at all happy. This book also had real people so I had a lot of fun researching
after I was done. I loved the alternating chapters between Sarah & Handful
because sometimes the same event was seen so differently from each woman’s
viewpoint it was very fascinating.
The narration by Jenna Lamia & Adepero Oduye was absolutely
spot on. As always Jenna was great as Sarah and new to me narrator Adepero
Oduye was fantastic as Handful, I would definitely listen to more books by her.
These two were great choices for these two women and all the secondary characters.
Fans of southern fiction won’t want to miss this one. I also
learned a lot about Sarah Grimke that I never knew because I had never heard of
her and that is sad because she did some amazing work.
4 Stars
Full Disclosure: I did receive an early review copy of this
from Netgalley but then I saw that Jenna Lamia was one of the narrators so
waited and bought the audiobook.
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