Margitte's Reviews > The Invention of Wings

What a great read. Once again, I will skip a long review and just mention that it was a well-researched, creative novel based on the true life story of two sisters who became the first outspoken anti-slavery advocates from Georgia and paid a hefty price for it. In the end they succeeded and changed the world for women in America as well in the early 1800s. All they asked was that men should step off their necks. A great expression to remember. But it needs to be said that it was men who inspired and supported them to go national and be winners in their own way.

The story about a friendship between a young girl and her slave, was touching, often heartbreaking, and real in a fictional way.

The conditions which slaves often had to endure was shocking. The sad part for me is that slavery is still continuing in other parts of the world today in even more shocking conditions, and nothing is said or done about it. I am proud of the American people for changing the lives of so many thousands of people when they abolished it. It was a bitter and sad time in history. So many people had to die.

The excellent way this story was written commemorates this part of history in such a way that many new generations of readers will get to learn about it. It is a story that has been told a million times before. The danger in that is that people disconnect, become apathetic, due to an overload. The over-exploitation element. It is like a popular song being killed by too many times being played on the radio.

The southern charm of the prose makes this a very good as well as informative read. The author presents a warm, compassionate, picturesque story of a friendship that survived all the odds.

Well done!