num_pages: 252
description: Hana a young Guatemalan woman who fell mute from a childhood tragedy flees the brutal Civil War ravaging her country in search of a better life in the United States. Soon after arriving she discovers she's pregnant and is banished from her new home and sent to live in a Mayan community in Indiantown Florida.There she settles into a peaceful life of embroidery and raising her child a daughter who turns out to be... different... and specialthe kind of special that soon draws worldwide attention for the better and worse.
language: English
title: The Tormenting Beauty of Empathy
publisher: Evolved Publishing