The Hummingbird's Daughter
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: May 17, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780316745468
Subjects: Historical fiction; Literary; American Historical Fiction; Latin American Novel And Short Story; Fiction; Fiction - Historical; Spanish; South America; Near-death experiences; Historical - General; Fiction / Historical; Illegitimate children; Teenage girls; Women healers
First sentence: ON THE COOL OCTOBER MORNING when Cayetana Chavez brought her baby to light, it was the start of that season in Sinaloa when the humid torments of summer finally gave way to breezes and falling leaves, and small red birds skittered through the corrals, and the dogs grew new coats.