Deborah Lee Luskin, VT writer blog

I just read On the Wings of a Hummingbird by my neighbor Susan Mills. This newly published novel tells the story of Petra, a fifteen-year old Guatemalan, raised with great spiritual strength that is tested by poverty and gang violence so great that she risks abduction, rape and murder just walking to school. After her childhood friend, now a gang member, kidnaps her, she escapes, and sees no choice for survival but to hop trains and walk more than 1,600 miles to the US border.