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A finalist for the National Book Award and The New Yorker Best Book Awards when it was originally published in 1999, Patricia Henley's Hummingbird House is the devastatingly powerful and emotionally unforgettable story of a human heart unbinding itself in the most unjust of worlds. This beautiful novel of women in war delivers an ending marked by its passion, strength, substance, and beauty.
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"Patricia Henley's novel takes us into the life of one American woman who becomes part of a community where trust is as vital as bread and just as rare. With deliberate craft and enormous compassion, Henley shows us how one exhausted woman exchanges numbness for resolution, and then chooses-to witness, to act, and to love regardless of what is lost." --Citation for the National Book Award, 1999 "Kate's tale rings true in her realistic conclusion that gross injustice calls for more than merely sorrow, but also rage, sacrifice and the ability to simultaneously love and lose." --Publisher's Weekly "It is impossible to read Hummingbird House...without thinking of Hemingway; and, with due respect for his mastery of the craft, thinking less well of him." --Indianapolis Star "Henley is a gifted writer with a poignant and important story to tell." --Rocky Mountain News "Deeply felt...a heartbreaking book." --John Sayles
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Patricia Henley is the author of the novel In the River Sweet, four short story collections (including the Montana First Book Award-winning Friday Night at Silver Star and, most recently, Other Heartbreaks), two chapbooks of poetry, a stage play, and numerous essays. A professor at Purdue University for more than 20 years, she currently lives in Frostburg, Maryland.
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- PublisherHaywire Books
- Publication date2019
- ISBN 10 1950182010
- ISBN 13 9781950182015
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