![]() Handful does poorly as a lady’s maid, but Sarah keeps Handful as safe from her mother’s wrath as possible. Sarah does not want to own Handful (called Hetty by the Grimkés) and even tries to set Handful free, but Sarah’s parents refuse to honor that wish. Sarah describes her earliest memory of a slave getting whipped, an experience which caused Sarah to start to stutter. Handful usually helps her mother, Charlotte, with the sewing, but she is given to Sarah Grimké to be Sarah’s maid for Sarah’s eleventh birthday. Handful, so named for her small size at birth, is a slave for the Grimké family living in Charleston, South Carolina in 1803. Handful knows the legend isn’t true, but loves the idea anyway. ![]() The novel opens from Handful’s perspective, as she retells an African legend of people who could fly but lost their wings once they were taken to America. ![]()
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