It was the Daily Beast Novel of the Year, a Washington Post Notable Book, an NPR Great Read, a Target Book of the Month selection, and was chosen one of the best books of the year by BookPage,, and School Library Journal. She lives in Illinois.Cristina Henríquez is the author of The Book of Unknown Americans, which was a New York Times Notable Book of 2014 and one of Amazon’s 10 Best Books of the Year. She was featured in Virginia Quarterly Review as one of “Fiction’s New Luminaries,” has been a guest on National Public Radio, and is a recipient of the Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Foundation Award, a grant started by Sandra Cisneros in honor of her father.Ĭristina earned her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her stories have been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Glimmer Train, The American Scholar, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, and AGN I, along with the anthology This is Not Chick Lit: Original Stories by America’s Best Women Writers.Ĭristina’s non-fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Real Simple, The Oxford American, and Preservation, as well as in the anthologies State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America and Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary: Women Writers Reflect on the Candidate and What Her Campaign Meant. In addition to The Book of Unknown Americans, Henriquez is also the author of The World In Half(a novel), and Come Together, Fall Apart: A Novella and Stories, which was a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection. It is Maribel and Mayor’s star-crossed love that lends this novel an emotional urgency, and it’s the story of their families that gives us a visceral sense of the magnetic allure of America, and the gaps so many immigrants find here between expectations and reality.'īook review, The New York Times, July 10 2014, by Michiko Kakutani

''Unknown Americans' is at its most powerful not when it’s giving us a documentary like look at immigrant life in one Delaware (yes, Delaware) town, but when it’s chronicling the lives of its two central characters. “ After you’ve experienced Alma and Arturo’s optimism in the face of almost mythical turns of fate, their story will inhabit you for long after you’ve closed the pages.”īook review, Los Angeles Review of Brooks, July 26, 2014, by Priyanka Kumar “.a quiet, unassuming novel that ravels slowly, quickens without warning, spins into high drama and leaves you in thrall to its vivid characters and its author’s sure hand.”īook review, The Washington Post, June 14 2014, by Marie Arana 'The Book of Unknown Americans,' by Cristina Henríquez

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