The Hummingbird's Daughter
by Luis Alberto Urre
A folk saint and the revolution she made inevitable.
you want to understand the Mexico that existed before the official history began
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Based on the true story of Teresita Urrea, a young woman in the Sonoran desert who began healing the sick and became a figure of such power that the Mexican government declared her an enemy of the state. The novel Urrea spent twenty years writing. It moves between the brutal reality of life on a hacendado and something genuinely miraculous — a dispatch from inside a Mexico that the textbooks reduced to a footnote.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Mexico • Latin America
- Voice
- Written by a Mexican author
- Themes
- After Empire
