01763cam a2200301 i 4500001001000000003000600010005001700016008004100033020001800074040000800092082001500100100003400115245004300149250004400192264007800236264001100314300003300325336002600358337002800384338002700412500005000439500006900489520076900558650002901327650002701356650005501383650002301438923561878OCoLC20230810105848.0161102t20152016nyu           000 f eng d  a9780062369550  cAJM04a813.542231 aKiernan, Stephen P.,eauthor.14aThe hummingbird /cStephen P. Kiernan.  aFirst William Morrow paperback edition. 1aNew York :bWilliam Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,c2016. 4c©2015  a312 pages, 11 pages ;c21 cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  a"P.S. insights, interviews & more..."--cover.  aIncludes an interview with the author and a reading group guide.  aDeborah Birch is a seasoned hospice nurse whose daily work requires courage and compassion. But her skills and experience are tested in new and dramatic ways when her easygoing husband, Michael, returns from his third deployment to Iraq haunted by nightmares, anxiety, and rage. She is determined to help him heal, and to restore the tender, loving marriage they once had. At the same time, Deborah's primary patient is Barclay Reed, a retired history professor and expert in the Pacific Theater of World War II whose career ended in academic scandal. Alone in the world, the embittered professor is dying. As Barclay begrudgingly comes to trust Deborah, he tells her stories from that long-ago war, which help her find a way to help her husband battle his demons. 0aHospice nursesvFiction. 0aHospice carevFiction. 0aPost-traumatic stress disorderxPatientsvFiction. 0aVeteransvFiction.