About this title: When Kate Banner, an American midwife in Nicaragua, loses another patient -- a young Nicaraguan woman who had given birth only the night before on the bottom of a swamped wooden boat -- she knows it is time to go home. Because to care for the children of war, you have to cut off pieces of your heart. But traveling home leads her to Guatemala, where even children sometimes disappear. Patricia Henley's Hummingbird House is a devastatingly powerful and emotionally trustworthy story of a human heart unbinding itself in the most unjust of worlds.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: MacAdam/Cage
Date Published: 2000-04-29
ISBN-13:9781878448989ISBN:1878448986
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: MacAdam/Cage
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9781878448873ISBN:1878448870
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Hardcover ex-library book with dust jacket in good condition. Pages are clean and the binding is tight. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: MacAdam/Cage
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9781878448873ISBN:1878448870
Description: Good. Hardcover ex-library book with dust jacket in good condition. All usual stamps and markings. Pages are clean and the binding is tight. read more
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Macmurray & Beck Communication
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9781878448873ISBN:1878448870
Description: As New in As New jacket. Full number line present, Book is as new with no flaws, DJ is as new with no flaws and is not price clipped, covered in Mylar for protection. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Macmurray & Beck Communication, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9781878448873ISBN:1878448870
Description: Very Good- in Very Good- jacket. Slight spine lean, edgwear to the jacket heaviest at the head of the spine, and the front board has a slight warp to it. read more
Edition: Trade Paper
Binding: Softcover--Very Good
Publisher: MacMurray & Beck, Denver
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9781878448989ISBN:1878448986
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. Trade Paper Fiction Fiction: A novel about an American midwife caught up in the strife of Central America, in an excellent trade paperback edition. read more
"Hummingbird House is a book I didn't particularly love for most of the way through. It is the story of Kate, an nurse in Nicaragua for the last 8 years who had stayed on after a visit from the states, who is finally going home. She gets waylaid in Guatamala, however, and the civil strife going on there. It was a little too self-concerned, a little too self-righteous and not extremely compelling. It comes together though quite well. The writing is solid if not great and occasionally stretching itself too far and the plot points for much of the book feel mildly contrived.
What emerges from this, however, is a narrative that feels like the truth. It comes to a place of some sort of peace, but it is peace with itself, not peace as in absence of war or of strife (something that I began to fear it would attain) but a peace of separating while remaining a part of. It is difficult to describe, but I feel that this book does a good job of capturing this feeling. Give it a looksee if you get the opportunity, it may be your cup of tea."
"Kate Banner, American midwife in Central America. Nicaragua and Guatamala are the "place" but you need to read the book to find out why Kate goes to Central America and does not return."
"About an American midwife who goes to Nicaragua to visit a friend and gets caught up in the conflict there. An interesting and new perspective for me."
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