Song of Hummingbird Highway

A magical realism novel of music, sacrifice, and self-discovery.What if the music you followed halfway across the world was leading you back to yourself?Terri, a Midwestern music lover with more bravado than self-esteem, follows her musician boyfriend from a Santa Monica reggae club to Belize. Amid Garifuna drums and Mayan cosmology, a near-death experience leads her to a mysterious healer and challenges everything she understood about life and love.A character-driven story of a woman who learned early to laugh off pain, and a country that won't let her hide.Christian faith, Daoist wisdom and ancestral practice reveal the power of healing music.Penelope, a former nun with a shotgun and a saying for every occasion, becomes an unforgettable ally.As a wife and mother, Terri must face the cracks in the life she built and the one person she's been running from. Herself.Woven with 125 songs and 30 original photographs, so you can hear and see Terri's world.Winner of the Readers' Favorite International Book Award (Bronze, Cultural Fiction), the Literary Titan Silver Book Award, and the Firebird and Four Seasons Book Awards. A Next Generation Indie Book Awards finalist. Reviewed by Kirkus Reviews, BookLife and Midwest Book Review.For readers of Isabel Allende and The Unmaking of June Farrow who want their literary women's fiction with a soundtrack.From Los Angeles to the jungles and cenotes of Belize, can Terri find her own song before the life she built falls silent?