What a poignant, beautiful story! It's a story of life, love, and family told as Mira's mother was slowly losing pieces of herself to Alzheimer's Disease and Mira was searching for her Panamanian father. From two different worlds, Panama and Chicago, this story spanned two generations. As the laborers, one of whom was Mira's father, worked on the Panama Canal, the legend was that they were cutting the world in half, but Mira experiences her mother's illness as the event that cut her world in half. This book was really sweet, I read it fairly quickly. It's about a young college aged woman (a science major at that), who sets out to Panama to find her father who she's never met. I enjoyed the struggles of maintaining and building new relationships with her mother and friends. As another reviewer pointed out I also enjoyed the little quips about geology throughout the text and relating rocks and earth formation to her emotional struggles.I wouldn't say the books was mind blowing-ly amazing but it was sweet, enjoyable, and it had a feeling of authenticity to it.
What do You think about Il Mondo A Metà (2000)?
Great book, I enjoyed it more than I thought I would.
—johnna
