The Hummingbird’s Daughter
Born into poverty in nineteenth-century northern Mexico, Teresita comes under the care of a healer and discovers a calling that brings pilgrims to the ranch where she lives. Her growing reputation draws the attention of authorities who fear the power her followers might represent. Urrea bases the novel on his relative Teresa Urrea, remembered as the Saint of Cabora.
Ranch life, family relationships, healing traditions and the tensions of a country approaching upheaval give the story its texture. History and accounts of the miraculous meet in a novel grounded in years of family and historical research. It offers a broad journey into northern Mexico through the life of a girl whose influence reaches far beyond her beginnings.
History; Healing; Family; Faith