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 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 Ð 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. A 1999 National book Award Finalist in Fiction One of Booklist's Top 10 First Novels of the Year - Honorable Mention, 1999  326 pages - 5" x 8"
ZC8986 Hummingbird House $13.00
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