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Author Urrea, Luis Alberto.

Title The hummingbird's daughter : a novel / Luis Alberto Urrea.

Imprint New York : Little, Brown, and Co., 2005.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  813.54 Ur7h 2005    ---  Axe Inventory 2024
Edition 1st ed.
Description 499 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary This historical novel is based on Urrea's real great-aunt Teresita, who had healing powers and was acclaimed as a saint. Urrea has researched historical accounts and family records for years to get an accurate story.
Subject Teenage girls -- Fiction.
Women healers -- Fiction.
Illegitimate children -- Fiction.
Near-death experiences -- Fiction.
Mexico -- History -- 1867-1910 -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Historical fiction.
Subject Historical fiction.
Coming of age -- Fiction.
ISBN 0316745464
9780316745468
Standard No. YDXCP 2168340

 
    
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