It is still incredible! Something about Urrea’s ability to evoke the landscape and capture a mood really drew me into this story. She learned that she herself could one day stretch open as wide as a window, and it would not kill her.” First read Luis Alberto Urrea’s Hummingbird’s Daughter nearly 13 years ago. “She learned that women were braver than men. Two decades in the writing, this is the masterpiece that Luis Alberto Urrea has been building up to.more The Hummingbird's Daughter is a vast, hugely satisfying novel of love and loss, joy and pain. This passionate and rebellious young woman has arisen from the dead with the power to heal - but it will take all her faith to endure the trials that await her and her family now that she has become the Saint of Cabora. Sixteen year old Teresita, illegitimate but beloved daughter of the wealthy and powerful rancher Don Tomas Urrea, wakes from the strangest dream - a dream that she has died. It is 1889, and the civil war is brewing in Mexico. Sixteen year old Teresita, illegitimate but beloved daughter of the wealthy and powerful rancher Don Tomas Urrea, wakes from the strangest dream - a dream that she has d The prizewinning writer Luis Alberto Urrea's long-awaited novel is an epic mystical drama of a young woman's sudden sainthood in late 19th-century Mexico. The prizewinning writer Luis Alberto Urrea's long-awaited novel is an epic mystical drama of a young woman's sudden sainthood in late 19th-century Mexico.
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