"A knockout of a novel...we predict [Infinite Country] will be
viewed as one of 2021's best." --O, The Oprah Magazine 'A poignant
and beautifully written tale' - Financial TimesA Grazia 'Best Book
of 2021' I often wonder if we are living the wrong life in the
wrong country. Talia is being held at a correctional facility for
adolescent girls in the forested mountains of Colombia after
committing an impulsive act of violence that may or may not have
been warranted. She urgently needs to get out and get back home to
Bogota, where her father and a plane ticket to the United States
are waiting for her. If she misses her flight, she might also miss
her chance to finally be reunited with her family in the north. How
this family came to occupy two different countries, two different
worlds, comes into focus like twists of a kaleidoscope. We see
Talia's parents, Mauro and Elena, fall in love in a market stall as
teenagers against a backdrop of civil war and social unrest. We see
them leave Bogota with their firstborn, Karina, in pursuit of
safety and opportunity in the United States on a temporary visa,
and we see the births of two more children, Nando and Talia, on
American soil. We witness the decisions and indecisions that lead
to Mauro's deportation and the family's splintering--the costs
they've all been living with ever since. Award-winning,
internationally acclaimed author Patricia Engel, herself a dual
citizen and the daughter of Colombian immigrants, gives voice to
all five family members as they navigate the particulars of their
respective circumstances. And all the while, the metronome ticks.
Will Talia make it to Bogota in time? And if she does, can she
bring herself to trade the solid facts of her father and life in
Colombia for the distant vision of her mother and siblings in
America? Rich with Bogota urban life, steeped in Andean myth, and
tense with the daily reality of the undocumented in America,
Infinite Country is the story of two countries and one mixed-status
family--for whom every triumph is stitched with regret, and every
dream pursued bears the weight of a dream deferred. "An exquisitely
told story of family, war, and migration, this is a novel our
increasingly divided country wants and needs to read." --R.O. Kwon,
Electric Literature
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