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    Grave of Hummingbirds
    Grave of Hummingbirds
    Grave of Hummingbirds
    Audiobook5 hours

    Grave of Hummingbirds

    Written by Jennifer Skutelsky

    Narrated by Timothy Andrés Pabon

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    About this audiobook

    In a country that keeps secrets and buries sins, a stranger learns the price of both.

    In the remote Andean village of Colibrí, a boy discovers what appears to be the body of an angel. But in the face and wounds of the dead, winged woman, Dr. Gregory Moreno sees something even more disturbing: an uncanny resemblance to his beloved late wife that cannot be mere chance. And in American anthropologist Sophie Lawson, still more echoes of the doctor’s lost love stir…igniting the superstitions of the townspeople, and an elusive killer’s deepest desires and despair.

    When Sophie vanishes, her son and Dr. Moreno must navigate the streets, politics, and mysteries of a place where tortured ghosts and strange omens exist side by side with mortals both devout and corrupt. But they may need nothing less than a miracle to save her from sacrifice at the altar of a madman’s twisted passion.

    Conjuring shades of Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende, or even Neil Gaiman, Grave of Hummingbirds is a mesmerizing novel of dreams and demons, beauty and blood.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJan 1, 2016
    ISBN9781511382939
    Grave of Hummingbirds
    Author

    Jennifer Skutelsky

    Jennifer Skutelsky was born in South Africa and now lives with her daughter and three immigrant pets in San Francisco. Her first book, Breathing Through Buttonholes: The Story of Madeleine Heitner, is listed at the Yad Vashem Library, and her memoir, Tin Can Shrapnel, was an Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist. Grave of Hummingbirds, her MFA thesis at San Francisco State University, won the Clark-Gross Award in the Novel.

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    • 4/5
      Grave of Hummingbirds is a book about secrets and rituals in the high Andean village of Colibri. Though beautifully written, the characters remain too distant to resonate with the reader. As if surrounded by mountain fog, they never reveal who they really are. And when the reader can see through the haze, the images are not as they appear.The promised hummingbirds aren’t truly present, unless you count the spirits of the dead. Condors, on the other hand, are omnipresent. They soar, watching the land beneath. The boy shoots one; the doctor tends the bird’s wounds. But who will tend his? Nita is dead; her angel is Gabriela. American innocents stumble into Skutelsky’s mystic soup; Sophie, a forensic anthropologist, and her son Finn whose sensory ability takes him into the heads of pumas and condors. To what purpose? Only tragedy. Such is the tenor of the story. I rate the book 4 stars largely on the basis of its compelling prose.
    • 1/5
      not my cup of tea
    • 5/5
      Sophie and her son Finn stumble upon the small town of Colibri while on vacation. Despite laws against it Colibri still holds mysterious ceremonies to appease the gods. Finn seems to have a mysterious connection to animals and Sophie resembles two women who have both died mysteriously in Colibri. Both start to feel uncomfortable and want to leave Colibri but find themselves being kept there like they are lead actors in a play not of their choosing. There is a lot of folklore and small town mystery, intrigue and superstition in this book, reminding me a lot of Isabelle Allende's work. Ghosts and secrets abound leaving you often wondering what exactly is real. This story is very atmospheric and lyrical. Several of the characters are very well developed and others we get to know enough to carry us though. This small town seems to be straddling their present and their past traditions, they seem to need to let go of the past in order to move forward but struggle with letting go. I really loved this book and found the feel of it to be very fable like also reminding me of the works of Paolo Coehlo. The ending was surprising and satisfying even though it left me wanting a little more. The title is a little confusing I feel like it should be Grave of the Condors not Hummingbirds which barely make an appearance.