Patricia Henley’s award-winning novel is back in print for a special 20th anniversary edition! Discover this powerful story of a human heart unbinding itself in the most unjust of worlds.
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Kate Banner is a North American midwife helping flood victims in Nicaragua in the 1980s. When she loses another patient—a young woman who gave birth only the night before in the bottom of a swamped wooden boat—Kate knows it is time to go home. But her journey home leads her first into the seething secret wars of Guatemala, where she discovers her greatest challenges, and her greatest chances to love.
A finalist for the National Book Award and The New Yorker Best Book Awards when it was originally published in 1999, Patricia Henley’s Hummingbird House is the devastatingly powerful and emotionally unforgettable story of a human heart unbinding itself in the most unjust of worlds. This beautiful novel of women in war delivers an ending marked by its passion, strength, substance, and beauty.
“Patricia Henley’s novel takes us into the life of one American woman who becomes part of a community where trust is as vital as bread and just as rare. With deliberate craft and enormous compassion, Henley shows us how one exhausted woman exchanges numbness for resolution, and then chooses—to witness, to act, and to love regardless of what is lost.”
—Citation for the National Book Award
Patricia Henley is the author of the novel In the River Sweet, four short story collections (including the Montana First Book Award-winning Friday Night at the Silver Star and, most recently, Other Heartbreaks), two chapbooks of poetry, a stage play, and numerous essays.