With eight short stories and a novella that travel from dusty city streets to humid beaches, Cristina Henríquez 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 transitionand the insistent voices of its young peopleare vividly represented.
In Yanina, a young mans 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 shatteredand her lovers philandering is only one link in a chain of traumatic events that begins with her mothers 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...