A review by vspinazola
The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea

3.0

Meh. A 3.5, I would give it. I actually appreciated it more when I realized afterward that this was based on a true story. I felt like the novel was of two parts, the first part (Teresa coming of age) not necessarily having all that much to do with the second (modern miracles and Mexican revolution), and despite the fact that the whole novel was about Teresa, I never really felt like I got to know her, or any of the characters, for that matter. I think Urrea might have tried to cross the line into magic realism while holding to a historical fiction format and that made it kind of challenging to follow.