NHCC Book Club: Hummingbird’s Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea

NHCC Book Club: The Hummingbird’s Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea. Wednesday, October 28, 2026 6:00 pm NHCC | HLA Conference Room For the month of October 2026, we will be reading The Hummingbird’s Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea. The prizewinning writer Luis Alberto Urrea’s novel, The Hummingbird’s Daughter, is an epic mystical drama of a young woman’s sudden sainthood in late 19th-century Mexico. It is 1889, and the civil war is brewing in Mexico. Sixteen-year-old Teresita, illegitimate but beloved daughter of the wealthy and powerful rancher Don Tomas Urrea, wakes from the strangest dream – a dream that she has died. Only it was not a dream. This passionate and rebellious young woman has arisen from the dead with the power to heal – but it will take all her faith to endure the trials that await her and her family now that she has become the Saint of Cabora. The Hummingbird’s Daughter is a vast, hugely satisfying novel of love and loss, joy and pain. Two decades in the writing, this is the masterpiece that Luis Alberto Urrea has been building up to. The NHCC invites lovers of literature, folks who love to read, and those who enjoy talking about the history and the vast array of identities that contribute to Latinidad/Hispanidad to join us! We will meet on the fourth Wednesday of every month in the Center’s HLA Conference Room. Free community event. Please let us know who will be attending by registering below. RESERVE YOUR TICKETS HERE!