Recent Press

(Also a powells.com “Review-a-Day” pick)

Praise for Come Together, Fall Apart:

“A stunning debut collection.… Unlike so many stories set in an exotic locale, which tend to read like fictionalized guidebooks, these bring the country to life with fluency and verve.… More importantly, the stories lend fresh insight to human circumstances that transcend setting.… Breathtaking.”

Named an Editors’ Choice by the New York Times Book Review

Praise for Come Together, Fall Apart:

“[Henríquez's] prose reads as if it grew up drinking water that had been fluoridated with traces of John Updike and Ann Beattie. Her sentences have a muted calm.… Always she appears to be probing for rare moments of grace.”

Praise for Come Together, Fall Apart:

“[A] luminous first book of fiction.… The writing often shimmers and glows with a spiritual warmth.… Sometimes, too, the emotions are so unbearably poignant that one has to stop reading for a moment.… [A] marvelous volume.”

Named a Best Book of 2006 by The Seattle Times

Praise for Come Together, Fall Apart:

“Beautifully crafted.… Only a master can carry a complex sentence as she does.… This is powerful writing.”

Praise for Come Together, Fall Apart:

“Henríquez’s prose is spare, vivid and poetic.… The voice in each story is tender and unyielding.”

Praise for Come Together, Fall Apart:

“Henríquez shows great promise.… [She] finds the pulse of Panama without having been born there.… After reading Come Together, Fall Apart, you’d swear she had lived there her entire life.”

Praise for Come Together, Fall Apart:

“[A] tender collection.… The writing is pleasantly engaging but far from trite; the poignancy of many of these stories is intense, especially that of the title novella.”

Praise for Come Together, Fall Apart:

“[An] eloquent, muted debut collection.”

Praise for Come Together, Fall Apart:

“[A] dazzling new talent.… Henríquez’s voice is artfully simple and unembellished, soft yet quietly piercing.

Praise for Come Together, Fall Apart:

“…these fluid stories abound in beauty, irony, and magic. Like Junot Diaz and Daniel Alarcón, Henríquez is an immensely gifted young writer.”