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The Great Divide by Cristina Henríquez

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adventurous emotional informative sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Arguably my favorite read of 2024 so far, The Great Divide falls within a genre that I usually find challenging: historical fiction. When reading historical fiction novels, I often find myself getting distracted by the factual elements in the stories (wanting to look up dates, events, settings, etc.), Cristina Henriquez adeptly weaves in important details about the construction of the Panama Canal in the early 1900s and its impact on surrounding communities, while primarily focusing on individual characters' narratives during this time. I was able to get totally swept up in the story while still learning enough about the context to understand what was going on. The cast is *vast* (I cannot emphasize this enough), and while I initially had to devote a lot of mental energy to keeping track of all the different stories, I also felt that each story was treated with such careful attention to detail that by the end of the book, I was truly invested in all of their stories, particularly the ways in which they overlapped.

Thank you to NetGalley for my advanced copy.
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