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Together, both novels follow the journey of Teresita Urrea, a Mexican curandera who finds herself in America at the technologically miraculous turn of the twentieth century. In Part One of a special ...

Journalist and novelist Luis Alberto Urrea is the author "The Hummingbird's Daughter," a fictionalized life of his cousin Teresita published last week by Little, Brown. I was there to research a book.

Author Luis Urrea started the fictionalized saga of his own great-aunt Teresita, a Yaqui curandera known as the Saint of Cabora, in the acclaimed 2006 novel The Hummingbird’s Daughter.

The author earned rave reviews for his 2005 novel “The Hummingbird’s Daughter,” which told the story of his great-aunt, Teresita Urrea, the legendary 19th-century curandera, or healer ...

So begins "Queen of America," Luis Alberto Urrea's lushly written and smartly told story, his second novel based on the life of the real Saint Teresita Urrea, who was also the author's great-aunt ...

This book serves as the sequel to “The Hummingbird’s Daughter,” Urrea’s lively and beautifully composed 2005 novel about his miracle-working Yaqui Indian ancestress Teresita Urrea.

Teresa, Teresita, the Saint of Cabora, healer and revolutionary, is back in Luis Alberto Urrea’s “Queen of America.” In 2005’s “The Hummingbird’s Daughter,” she came of age on her ...

Teresita Urrea, the legendary 19th-century curandera, or healer, and folk hero known as the “Saint of Cabora.” A sequel to the novel, called “Queen of America,” was published six years later; it ...