The Great Divide is a TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick, an Indie Next Pick, a LibraryReads Pick, and has been named a Best of the Month Pick by Amazon, TIME, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times.

Cristina Henriquez is the author of four books, including The Book of Unknown Americans, which was a New York Times Notable Book of 2014 and one of Amazon’s Top 10 Best Books of the Year. It was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Henriquez is also the author of The World in Half and Come Together, Fall Apart: A Novella and Stories. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Real Simple, and more. She is a recipient of the Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Foundation Award, a grant started by Sandra Cisneros in honor of her father. Henriquez earned her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She lives in Illinois.

The Wilton Reads program will culminate with an author talk by Cristina Henriquez on Tuesday, May 7 at Wilton Library. During her talk, the author will be recognized with the Grodin Family Fine Writers award.  

Copies of The Great Divide are currently available via the library's catalog, including eBooks and eAudiobooks available to download to mobile devices on the Libby by OverDrive app. Please call the Reference Desk at (203) 762-6350 or email reference@wiltonlibrary.org for help with obtaining a copy of the book.    

To encourage readership and kick off the event, a limited number of hardcover copies of The Great Divide will be given away at the library free of charge courtesy of Fairfield County Bank on Wednesday, April 3rd.

This is the eighteenth season of Wilton Reads. The program originated in 2005 with a reading of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird.