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Infinite Country : A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick, EPUB eBook

Infinite Country : A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick EPUB

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A knockout of a novel...we predict [Infinite Country] will be viewed as one of 2021s best. --O, The Oprah Magazine

';A poignant and beautifully written tale' Financial Times
A Grazia Best Bookof 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 Bogot, 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 Talias 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 Bogot 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 Mauros deportation and the familys splintering--the costs theyve 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 Bogot 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 Bogot urban life, steeped in Andean myth, and tense with the daily reality of the undocumented in America,Infinite Countryis 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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