The Hummingbird’s Daughter
I’m not a professional book critic, in fact I’m not a professional anything these days. I used to be a professional IT Recruiter before twins, but that now seems like a life time ago. But I do want to share some of the books I’ve recently read and let you know about the ones that I would recommend.
I just finished The Hummingbird’s Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea and I wish there was more. A work of fiction, it is my favorite kind of fiction, the historical kind. The author’s subject is someone who once lived (and interesting to the story is a far off relation) and he took in years of research to try and make it authentic. I enjoyed the story primarily because of Urrea’s writing style. The subject itself is interesting, a woman raised in pre-revolutionary Mexico who becomes viewed as a saint because of her ability to heal. Urrea ties together the Catholic and shamanic beliefs of the people in Mexico with great ease. But at the end of the day it was truly his writing style that had me completely engrossed and anxious for moments alone to read again. It’s poetic without being pretentious or complicated. I was drawn into images without being overwhelmed by all the details, I didn’t find myself skipping paragraphs of what felt like unnecessary adjectives. I read each word knowing it had been chosen with great thought and perfectly. It was like Tom Robins without the irreverence. I highly recommend picking up this book and enjoying learning something from these characters and the time in which they lived.
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