TY - BOOK N2 - 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. AB - 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. T1 - The world in half / DA - 2009. CY - New York : AU - HenrĂ­quez, Cristina, CN - PS3608.E565 CN - PS3608.E565 PB - Riverhead Books, PP - New York : PY - 2009. ID - 337405 KW - Fathers and daughters SN - 9781594488559 SN - 159448855X TI - The world in half / LK - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0906/2008040372-d.html LK - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0912/2008040372-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0906/2008040372-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0912/2008040372-b.html ER -