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Praise for The Broken Hummingbird
I would like to thank everyone who came out to celebrate the Mexican launch of The Broken Hummingbird with me! We had a blast at gorgeous Casa Proserpina in San Miguel de Allende. I am so lucky to call this special community my home.
In the midst of a marital crisis, Jane hatches an unusual plan to avoid a custody battle. She convinces husband Kevin to walk away from the pressures of New York—in particular, her demanding job and an affair she almost had—in the hope that moving to their favorite city abroad will fix their family.
In San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, Jane and her young sons delight in new adventures, but Kevin still seethes. Jane befriends a circle of intriguing women and helps two girls who remind her of the brother she abandoned when her own parents divorced. After witnessing violence involving the girls’ father, Jane’s vivid dreams, possibly guided by a hummingbird messenger from the hereafter, grow ever darker. When tragedy strikes San Miguel, the community fractures and then rises, and Jane must make a dangerous choice. The Broken Hummingbird balances the raw undoing of a marriage with the joys of discovery that lie in building a new life.
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About the Author
ANN MARIE JACKSON is the award-winning author of The Broken Hummingbird, a writer for Mexico News Daily, and a freelance editor and ghostwriter. She is a 2025 Escape to Create Writer-in-Residence as well as a San Miguel Writers’ Conference & Literary Festival advisory board member.
Jackson is also co-founder of microlending organization Mano Amiga and a longstanding board member of Casita Linda, which builds homes for families living in extreme poverty in central Mexico.
Early in her career, after earning degrees from Stanford and Harvard, Jackson joined the U.S. Department of State to promote human rights in China and other East Asian and Pacific Island nations. She has worked with Human Rights Watch, A Better Chance, and Internews to further social justice causes and advance respect for human rights. A native of Seattle, Washington, Jackson resides in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.