Come Together, Fall Apart by Cristina Henriquez - ISBN: 9781594482410
Paperback
An exciting “New Yorker” debut fiction writer and new voice in Latina fiction delivers stories as beautiful as they are gritty, as haunting as they are immediate.

Come Together, Fall Apart

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  • Paperback

    320 pages

  • Release Date

    3 April 2007

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Summary

With eight short stories and a novella that travel from dusty city streets to humid beaches, Cristina Henriquez carves out a distinctive and unforgettable vision of contemporary Panama. The stories of Come Together, Fall Apart combine to create a seamless fictional world in which the varied landscapes and shifting culture of a country in transition-and the insistent voices of its young people-are vividly represented.In “Yanina,” a young man’s fidelity is tested when a new living situation str…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781594482410
ISBN-10:1594482411
Author:Cristina Henriquez
Publisher:Penguin Putnam Inc
Imprint:Riverhead Books,U.S.
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:3 April 2007
Weight:255g
Dimensions:203mm x 132mm x 20mm
About The Author

Cristina Henriquez

Cristina Henriquez is the author of Come Together, Fall Apart- A Novella and Stories, The World In Half and the forthcoming novel The Great Divide. Her stories have been published in The New Yorker, Glimmer Train, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, and AGNI, and her non-fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Oxford American, and Preservation. She was featured in Virginia Quarterly Review as one of “Fiction’s New Luminaries,” and is a recipient of the Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Foundation Award, a grant started by Sandra Cisneros in honor of her father.She earned her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She lives with her husband in Chicago.

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