![]() ![]() The narrative moves between past and present to chronicle Talia’s travails-first sent back to Colombia to live with her grandmother as a young girl, and later hitchhiking to Bogotá to meet Mauro-and the lives of Elena and Mauro, revealing the struggles of undocumented migrants and exploring “how people who do horrible things can be victims, and how victims can be people who do horrible things.” Engel’s sharp, unflinching narrative teems with insight and dazzles with a confident, slyly sophisticated structure. This deeply empathetic novel charts one family’s years-long struggle to reunite after immigration laws have wrenched them apart. But the family is separated when Mauro is deported for driving without a license. by Patricia Engel reviewed by Gina Isabel Rodriguez Infinite Country is Colombian-American writer Patricia Engel’s masterful fourth book. Her parents, Elena and Mauro, fell in love as teenagers and had a child before fleeing from the violence, poverty, and uncertainty of Bogotá and moving to Houston, where “their ears took in English, English, all the time English, and if they heard Spanish, it was with no accent like their own.” After overstaying their visas, they have two more kids including Talia, the youngest, and move to various cities. ![]() ![]() 'People say drugs and alcohol are the greatest and most persuasive narcoticsthe elements most likely to ruin a life. ![]() Talia breaks out of a reformatory for girls in Colombia with a single purpose: to reunite with her family in the U.S. READ REVIEW 18 INFINITE COUNTRY by Patricia Engel RELEASE DATE: MaA 15-year-old girl in Colombia, doing time in a remote detention center, orchestrates a jail break and tries to get home. Engel ( The Veins of the Ocean) delivers an outstanding novel of migration and the Colombian diaspora. ![]()
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