Thursday, January 23, 2014

Sue Monk Kidd On The First Book She Ever Loved

HuffPost Books


Brief Interviews is a new series in which writers discuss language, literature, and a handful of Proustian personality questions.

Sue Monk Kidd is the author of
The Secret Life of Bees. Her second book, The Invention of Wings [Viking, US$27.95 - Hachette NZ$37.99],  was published this month.

A fictionalized account of abolitionist and suffragist Sarah Moore Grimké,
The Invention of Wings undulates in narrative perspective from the viewpoint of Sarah, and of her family's 10-year-old slave, Hettie (nicknamed Handful). Continue reading...

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