Come Together, Fall Apart

✍ Scribed by Cristina Henriquez

• Book ID: 115029595
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 149 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781101127094

✦ Synopsis

**With eight short stories and a novella that travel from dusty city streets to humid beaches, Cristina Henr iquez 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 strains his relationship with his girlfriend. For the young woman in "Ashes," the very notion of fidelity is shattered--and her lover's philandering is only one link in a chain of traumatic events that begins with her mother's death. In "Mercury," an American girl visits her grandparents in Panama while her parents divorce at home, and attempts to connect with her ailing grandfather in broken Spanish...