Hummingbird House Author:Patricia Henley FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 1999 When Kate Banner, an American midwife in Nicaragua, loses another patient - a young Nicaraguan woman who had given birth only the night before - she knows it is time to go home. Travelling home leads her to Guatemala, where she becomes involved with the innocent victims of war. Through her experiences... more » and encounters, Kate finds a place she can connect with and call home far away from her American birthplace. Patricia Henley's Hummingbird House is a devastatingly powerful and emotional story of a human heart unbinding itself in the most unjust of worlds.« less