The Hummingbird's Daughter_ A Novel - Luis Alberto Urrea [0]
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Contents
Copyright
Book I: THE INITIATION OF THE DREAMERS
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Book II: WHERE THE SKY FORGOT TO RAIN
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-one
Chapter Twenty-two
Book III: THE HONEY AND THE BLOOD
Chapter Twenty-three
Chapter Twenty-four
Chapter Twenty-five
Chapter Twenty-six
Chapter Twenty-seven
Chapter Twenty-eight
Chapter Twenty-nine
Chapter Thirty
Chapter Thirty-one
Chapter Thirty-two
Chapter Thirty-three
Chapter Thirty-four
Chapter Thirty-five
Book IV: THE CATASTROPHE OF HOLINESS
Chapter Thirty-six
Chapter Thirty-seven
Chapter Thirty-eight
Chapter Thirty-nine
Chapter Forty
Chapter Forty-one
Chapter Forty-two
Chapter Forty-three
Chapter Forty-four
Chapter Forty-five
Chapter Forty-six
Chapter Forty-seven
Chapter Forty-eight
Chapter Forty-nine
Chapter Fifty
Chapter Fifty-one
Book V: THE OUTER DARK
Chapter Fifty-two
Chapter Fifty-three
Chapter Fifty-four
Chapter Fifty-five
Chapter Fifty-six
Chapter Fifty-seven
Chapter Fifty-eight
Chapter Fifty-nine
Chapter Sixty
Chapter Sixty-one
AUTHOR’S NOTE
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Other Books by Luis Alberto Urrea
NONFICTION
The Devil’s Highway: A True Story
Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border
By the Lake of Sleeping Children: The Secret Life of the Mexican Border
Nobody’s Son
Wandering Time
FICTION
In Search of Snow
Six Kinds of Sky
POETRY
The Fever of Being
Ghost Sickness
Vatos
For Cinderella
Truth is everything.
Of truth I have no fear.
In truth I see no shame.
— TERESITA URREA
Truth, for the tyrants, is the most terrible and
cruel of all bindings: it is like an incandescent iron
falling across their chests. And it is even more
agonizing than hot iron, for that only burns the flesh,
while Truth burns its way into the soul.
— LAURO AGUIRRE
Book I
THE INITIATION
OF THE DREAMERS
Daughter of Amapola, daughter of Marcelina.
Marcelina begat Tula, Tula begat Juana. Juana
begat Anastasia, who begat Camilda. Camilda de Rosalío
begat Nicolasa; Nicolasa, Tolomena; and Tolomena, Rocío.
Rocío begat Dolores, who begat Silvia María. Silvia María,
Dominga, who begat Epifania, who begat Agustina, and
Agustina begat María Rebeca, who begat that puta
Cayetana, who begat Teresa, named “of Cabora.”
—BRIANDA DOMECQ,
La insólita historia de la
Santa de Cabora
One
ON THE COOL OCTOBER MORNING when Cayetana Chávez brought her baby to light, it was the start of that season in Sinaloa when the humid torments of summer finally gave way to breezes and falling leaves, and small red birds skittered through the corrals, and the dogs grew new coats.
On the big Santana rancho, the People had never seen paved streets, street lamps, a trolley, or a ship. Steps were an innovation that seemed an occult work, stairways were the wicked cousins of ladders, and greatly to be avoided. Even the streets of Ocoroni, trod on certain Sundays when the People formed a long parade and left the safety of the hacienda to attend Mass, were dirt, or cobbled, not paved. The People thought all great cities had pigs in the streets and great muddy rivers of mule piss