@article{337405, author = {HenrĂ­quez, Cristina,}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/337405}, title = {The world in half /}, publisher = {Riverhead Books,}, abstract = {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.}, recid = {337405}, pages = {305 p. ;}, address = {New York :}, year = {2009}, }