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Come Together, Fall Apart
Cristina Henríquez
其他書名
A Novella and Stories
出版Riverhead Books, 2006
主題Fiction / Short Stories (single author)Fiction / Women
ISBN15944891579781594489150
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=3YqxAAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋An exciting "New Yorker" debut fiction writer and new voice in Latina fiction brings us stories as beautiful as they are gritty, as haunting as they are immediate.
From its dusty city streets lined with lottery stands and popsicle vendors to its humid and desolate beaches, Cristina Henr?quez brings Panama vibrantly to life on the pages of her remarkable debut. Just as Junot D?az created an intensely urban literary landscape from the barrios of the Dominican Republic and the immigrant communities of New Jersey, Henr?quez now carves out a vision of contemporary Panama as seen through the eyes of those who call it home and those who, in making lives in the States, have become outsiders.
"Come Together, Fall Apart" introduces us to young people at emotional crossroads-a man in a remote beach town who can't decide whether to marry his girlfriend; a girl whose close relationship with her mother is strained by her feelings for her first boyfriend; an American girl who is staying with her grandparents in Panama while her parents divorce at home; a young woman who wants more from life than her boyfriend, job, and drug habit have to offer-and vividly captures the varied landscapes and shifting culture of a country in transition.
These stories of family bonds and generational conflicts, youthful infatuation and genuine passion are tender, ambitious, and unflinching. They herald the arrival of a fresh, exciting, and lavishly talented new voice in American literature.