Cristina Henríquez is the author of THE GREAT DIVIDE, THE BOOK OF UNKNOWN AMERICANS, THE WORLD IN HALF and COME TOGETHER, FALL APART: A Novella and Stories. She has been longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Real Simple, The Oxford American, The American Scholar and elsewhere. She earned her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She lives in Illinois.

Books by Cristina Henríquez

The Great Divide

by Cristina Henríquez - Fiction

THE GREAT DIVIDE is a powerful novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived, loved and labored there.