The World in Half

Name: The World in Half
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Cristina Henriquez
ISBN: 9781705255940

Author: Cristina Henriquez

Narrator: Joana Garcia

Unabridged: 9 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/02/2021

Categories: Fiction, Family Life, Women

Synopsis

The "beautiful" (Chicago Sun-Times) novel from the prizewinning author of Come Together, Fall Apart.

Miraflores never knew her father, and never thought he wanted to know her. But when she returns to the Chicago suburb where she grew up to care for her ailing mother, she discovers that her mother and father were greatly in love, and that her father had wanted a daughter more than she could have imagined. Now, Miraflores secretly plots a trip to Panama, in search of the man she hopes can heal her mother—and who can help her find the pieces of her own identity. What she finds is unexpected, exhilarating, and holds the power to change the course of her life.

About Cristina Henriquez

Cristina Henriquez is the author of the story collection Come Together, Fall Apart, which was a New York Times Editor's Choice selection, and the novel The World in Half. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Glimmer Train, Virginia Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, AGNI, and The Oxford American, as well as in various anthologies.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sheryl on August 26, 2018

I thought The World in Half started a bit slow, and I was maddened by the excessive use of strained similes ("the air-conditioning grumbling like a bad stomachache"; "giddiness fizzles inside me like a firecracker"; "the paper leaves collapse softly, like a failed souffle"; "a disused woven hammock......more

Goodreads review by Ian on October 15, 2016

I read the first 2/3rds of The World in Half while on a red-eye cross country (US) flight. I don't sleep on planes. So I was in a bit of a stupor while reading. I think it deserves better than an up all night, half awake reader, but that was my state, so okay. The plotting here was good, strong supp......more

Goodreads review by Natalye on June 16, 2009

"The World in Half" -Cristina Henriquez (2009) This book hit me in my emotional core, way more than I thought it would. Having just returned from a trip to Europe, the purpose of whihc was one part travel, one part visiting a friend and one part finding myself, I related to the protagonist on so many......more

Goodreads review by Ari on July 10, 2011

IQ "It's more Spanish than I've ever spoken with anyone. But with limitations comes freedom. I don't have the luxury of relying on the automatic expressions I have at my disposal when I'm speaking in English. There's no default mode of communication, few standby phrases and ready-made sayings. I hav......more