The Hummingbird’s Cage

Author/Guide: Tamara Dietrich

Why a Booktrail?

2000s: Can you ever escape your past and what kind of place would you wish for your sanctuary?

ISBN: 978-1409166481
Genre: Fiction, magical realism

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What you need to know before your trail

Joanna seems to lead the perfect life or so everything in the town o fNew Wheeler Mexico thinks so. She’s the wife of the deputy sheriff there and they have a lovely daughter Laurel. But behind the picket fence perfection is a dark dark reality.

When Joanna gets the chance to escape, she takes her daughter and makes a run for it. Arriving at the small town of Morro, some where she stumbles across rather than plots the course, she is amazed at what she finds. A farmer and his wife offers her sanctuary and she hopes that this is her new chance at life.

But her past—and her husband—aren’t so easy to escape.

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Travel Guide

We live just outside Wheeler, a city of twenty thousand bordering the Navajo reserve. The town is roughly equal parts Caucasian, Hispanic and India – not just Navajo, but Zuni and Hopi too. It’s been described as a down and dirty sort of place.

The town is notorious for its saturation of bars, liquor stores and plasma donor centers. Unless you live there, or need a night’s sleep, or you’re in the market for souvenirs of Indian Country, it’s more of a drive-through than a destination.

But wait until you go to Morro..

Booktrailer Review

Clare: @thebooktrailer

This was a nice surprise! Oh don’t get me wrong the beginning and the initial subject of an abused wife is horrendous. I felt her pain and almost didn’t want to keep reading. It’s never easy reading about abuse and I tend to avoid a lot of books because of this, but something told me to keep reading and I’m so glad I did.

A review here is difficult for it’s more of a book to discover for yourself and when you’ve read it, you’ll know what I mean. Let’s just say that it’s a journey that you probably won’t have read of before and a journey that will linger with you. There’s elements of magical realism throughout and an ending that I didn’t expect. It is worth getting through those difficult chapters for but it won’t be for everyone.

I think though that the book’s overall message of salvation and reinvention is a strong one. I’m a fan of magical realism but I did feel that the abuse sections made me more down than I thought and that in contrast the salvation parts felt more fairytale than they should have done.

I still want to go and find Morro however. There should be somewhere like this everywhere! Oh and the title – nice.