{"title":"Sue Monk Kidd","description":"SUE MONK KIDD's debut novel, The Secret Life of Bees, spent more than one hundred weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, has sold more than six million copies in the United States, was turned into both an award-winning major motion picture and a musical, and has been translated into thirty-six languages. Her second novel, The Mermaid Chair, was a number one New York Times bestseller and was adapted into a television movie. Her third novel, The Invention of Wings, an Oprah's Book Club 2.0 pick, was also a number one New York Times bestseller. She is the author of several acclaimed works of nonfiction, including The Dance of the Dissident Daughter,  her groundbreaking work on religion and feminism, as well as the New York Times bestseller Traveling with Pomegranates,  written with her daughter, Ann Kidd Taylor. She lives in North Carolina.","products":[{"product_id":"the-invention-of-wings-paperback","title":"The Invention of Wings - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eHetty \"Handful\" Grimkae, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimkae household. The Grimkae's daughter Sarah has known from an early age she's meant to do something large in the world, but she's hemmed in by the limits imposed on women. On Sarah's eleventh birthday, she's given ownership of ten year old Handful, who's to be her handmaid. Over the next thirty-five years, both women strive for a life of their own, dramatically shaping each other's destinies and forming a complex relationship marked by guilt, defiance, estrangement, and the uneasy ways of love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101642494175,"sku":"9781594138867","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/VlRlSXJrUzUvVm9teVRNaUdHeVBlQT09.webp?v=1781071881"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/sue-monk-kidd.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}