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Kate Banner is a North American midwife helping flood victims in Nicaragua in the 1980s. When she loses another patient-a young woman who gave birth only the night before in the bottom of a swamped wooden boat-Kate knows it is time to go home. But her journey home leads her first into the seething secret wars of Guatemala, where she discovers her greatest challenges, and her greatest chances to love.
A finalist for the National Book Award and The New Yorker Best Book Awards when it was originally published in 1999, Patricia Henley's Hummingbird House is the devastatingly powerful and
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Produktbeschreibung
Kate Banner is a North American midwife helping flood victims in Nicaragua in the 1980s. When she loses another patient-a young woman who gave birth only the night before in the bottom of a swamped wooden boat-Kate knows it is time to go home. But her journey home leads her first into the seething secret wars of Guatemala, where she discovers her greatest challenges, and her greatest chances to love.

A finalist for the National Book Award and The New Yorker Best Book Awards when it was originally published in 1999, Patricia Henley's Hummingbird House is the devastatingly powerful and emotionally unforgettable story of a human heart unbinding itself in the most unjust of worlds. This beautiful novel of women in war delivers an ending marked by its passion, strength, substance, and beauty.

This special 20th anniversary edition includes a new foreword by Steve Yarbrough, an interview with the author, and a book club reader's guide.


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Autorenporträt
Patricia Henley is the author of the novel In the River Sweet, four short story collections (including the Montana First Book Award-winning Friday Night at the Silver Star and, most recently, Other Heartbreaks), two chapbooks of poetry, a stage play, and numerous essays. A professor at Purdue University for more than 20 years, she currently lives in Frostburg, Maryland.