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Original Title:	The World in Half
ISBN:	159448855X (ISBN13: 9781594488559)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Panama

The World in Half

Cristina Henriquez

Hardcover | Pages: 320 pages

Rating: 3.7 | 712 Users | 101 Reviews

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Title	:	The World in Half
Author	:	Cristina Henriquez
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	April 2nd 2009 by Riverhead Hardcover (first published February 20th 2009)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Novels. Adult Fiction. Literature. American. Adult. Family

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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 ever 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.

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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 lies like a dried corn husk on the ground"--among many, many others). But this story did make me cry--and more than once. It was sad and touching. And I loved how much I learned about Panama and the

I really loved this book, which I also inhaled while on vacation in Florida. I've found I particularly like a number of authors from Central and South America: Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Columbia), Paulo Coelho (Brazil), Isabel Allende (Peru) and now Cristina Henriquez (Panama).Like Come Together, Fall Apart, Henriquez doesn't go to the expected, and she conveys the Panama landscape and the lingering effects of the building of the Panama Canal with prowess. I was delighted to recommend this book to

I felt something was left to be desired, Im not sure what. But a generally interesting and moving story about a college student who goes looking for her birth father in Panama.

"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 levels, even though our situations were quite different. I found myself writing down quotes from the book as well - they weren't mindblowing or profound, but they made sense and echoed my own

I am pleasantly surprised by how much I liked this book which I won during last year's BPL Summer Reading Program. Twenty-something Miraflores is searching for her long-lost father in Panama. She's also escaping trouble at home and discovering who she is/can be along the way. She happens to be a geology student and observations about geophysics serve as parallels to the storytelling. "I believe the earth has a memory. That everything that's ever happened through time has left its trace in fine,

My reading of this book suffered from two things: (1) The book I read just before featured a female character with whom I identified and sympathized with quite a bit, and (2) this one takes place partly in the city and country of Panama, where I did some of my growing up and, thus, know well. Actually, theres a third thing: Because its about Panama and I love Panama, I wanted to love this book, which means the bar I set was high. My disappointment in it is deeper, perhaps, than if it was about

Never meets her dad, very sad. Mom dying from complications for Alzheimer's. Relationship with Danilo left open-ended. A frustrating... feels like book just ends with no resolution.