The World in Half by Cristina Henriquez
The "beautiful" (Chicago Sun-Times) novel from the prizewinning author of Come Together, Fall Apart and The Great Divide.Miraflores has never known her father, and until now, she's never thought that he wanted to know her. She's long been aware that her mother had an affair with him while she was stationed with her then husband in Panama, and she's always assumed that her pregnant mother came back to the United States alone with his consent. But when Miraflores returns to the Chicago suburb where she grew up, to care for her mother at a time of illness, she discovers that her mother and father had a greater love than she ever thought possible, and that her father had wanted her more than she could have imagined.
In secret, Miraflores plots a trip to Panama, in search of the man whose love she hopes can heal her mother-and whose presence she believes can help her find the pieces of her own identity that she thought were irretrievably lost. What she finds is unexpected, exhilarating, and holds the power to change the course of her life completely.
In gorgeous, shimmering prose, Cristina Henriquez delivers a triumphant and heartbreaking first novel- the story of a young woman reconciling an existence between two cultures and confronting a life of hardship with an endless capacity to learn, love, and forgive.
Cristina Henrquez is the author of the novella Come Together, Fall Apart: A Novella and Tales, as well as the upcoming novel The World In Half. Her nonfiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Oxford American, while Preservation, and her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Glimmer Train, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, and AGNI. She was named one of Fiction's New Luminaries by Virginia Quarterly Review, and she is the recipient of the Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Foundation Prize, which was established by Sandra Cisneros in honor of her father. She graduated from Northwestern University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She and her spouse live in Chicago.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781594484391 |
| ISBN 10 | 1594484392 |
| Title | The World in Half |
| Author | Cristina Henriquez |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2010-02-02 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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