Is The Hummingbird's Daughter Worth Reading?
Ada’s Score
Luis Alberto Urrea's epic, magical-realist masterwork tells the story of Teresita, the illegitimate daughter of a powerful Mexican rancher, who discovers she possesses the power to heal the sick and the dying in late nineteenth-century Sinaloa. Based on the true story of the real-life Saint Teresa of Cabora, the novel moves between the intimate world of the hacienda and the vast, violent upheavals of pre-revolutionary Mexico, blending folklore, history, and the miraculous into an unforgettable whole. Urrea's prose is lush and ecstatic, charged with the heat and dust of the Sonoran desert. It is one of the great unsung novels of American literature, a love story between a woman and her people.
“Urrea writes with the heat and color of the desert itself. This book is an act of love for a woman history nearly forgot — and it's glorious.”
Ada Brief
AI reading intelligence“Urrea writes with the heat and color of the desert itself. This book is an act of love for a woman history nearly forgot — and it's glorious.”
Book Details
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Published
- January 1, 2005
- Pages
- 512
- Language
- English
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Ada’s Score Breakdown
4.5
This breakdown reflects how Ada weighs the book’s strengths and flaws, not aggregated reader data.
Common Questions About The Hummingbird's Daughter
- Is The Hummingbird's Daughter worth reading?
- Urrea writes with the heat and color of the desert itself. This book is an act of love for a woman history nearly forgot — and it's glorious. Ada rates it 4.5 out of 5.
- How many pages is The Hummingbird's Daughter?
- The Hummingbird's Daughter is 512 pages long — around 9–10 hours at an average reading pace.
