About this Event
Join us for our bi-monthly book club gathering on September 10th at 5:45pm. We will gather to socialize and discuss the book as well as sharing other books we've enjoyed. You are welcome to bring your own snacks or dinner. The bar will be open during the gathering.
This book should be readily available from your local library, bookstore and online venders.
From Goodreads...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.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Compass Point home of Dirty Girl Adventures, 800 North Kansas Avenue, Topeka, United States
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