Hummingbird House
by Patricia Henley
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An American midwife on holiday in Mexico decides to stay on to help the local people and a priest falls in love with her. Kate Banner is a woman in her forties from Indiana and the culmination of her work is a clinic and school in Guatemala.Tags
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I just couldn't find enough interest to finish this book and gave up at about the half-way mark. The basic idea is OK - the question of personal fulfillment and relationships in the context of a harsh external political environment, but I'm not sure that the characters were developed enough for me to want to share their lives. Perhaps also I am too alienated from the Central American culture in which this book is set and the regular use of Spanish phrases didn't help this English-only reader.
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Patricia Henley teaches in the M.F.A. Creative Writing Program at Purdue University and lives in Indiana.
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