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$24.95
(OCoLC)57068438
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Urrea, Luis Alberto.
The hummingbird's daughter :
a novel /
Luis Alberto Urrea.
La hija de la chuparrosa : una novela.
1st ed.
New York :
Little, Brown, and Co.,
2005.
499 p. ; 24 cm.
When sixteen-year-old Teresita, the illegitimate daughter of a late-nineteenth-century rancher, arises from death possessing the power to heal, she is declared a saint and finds her faith tested by the impending Mexican civil war.
Teenage girls
Fiction.
Women healers
Fiction.
Illegitimate children
Fiction.
Near-death experiences
Fiction.
Coming of age
Fiction.
Mexico
History
1867-1910
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
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