These eight short stories and novella travel from Panama\'s dusty city streets to its humid beaches to create an affecting portrait of a country in transition.
She lives with her husband in Chicago..
She earned her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and is a graduate of the Iowa Writers\' Workshop.
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.
Her stories have been published in The New Yorker, Glimmer Train, Ploughshares, Tri Quarterly, and AGNI, and her non-fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Oxford American, and Preservation.
About the Author: Cristina Henr quez is the author of Come Together, Fall Apart: A Novella and Stories and the forthcoming novel The World In Half.
Tender, ambitious, bold, and unflinching, they herald the arrival of a fresh, exciting, and lavishly talented new voice in American literature.
They illustrate family bonds and generational conflicts, youthful infatuation and genuine passion.
These eight short stories and novella travel from Panama\'s dusty city streets to its humid beaches to create an affecting portrait of a country in transition
