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The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd This great historical novel is the story of house slaves in Charleston, South Carolina, from 1803 to 1838. An Unwanted Gift!     The wealthy white Sarah Grimke on her 11th birthday, receives the gift of a slave girl.  The unwanted gift is ten-year-old “Handful”.    Her mama is the seamstress for many white people in the town and also the Grimke family’s slave.   For the next 35 years these two…