Infinite Country ★★★★☆

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★★★★☆

Infinite Country by Patricia Engel is a novel about a Colombian family trying to stay together.

I got this book from a little free library.

Elena & Mauro were a young couple living in Bogota who decide to go to America to earn money to send home to Elena’s mother. Years pass and the couple has three children. They try to stay under the radar, as they only came to the US on temporary visas, but when Mauro gets beat up, he is taken to a detention center and eventually deported. Elena sends their youngest daughter back to Columbia to be raised by her mother and it is over a decade before the family is able to find a way to be reunited.

This book was engaging and well written, I especially enjoyed Talia, the youngest daughter’s storyline.

If you liked Infinite Country, I also recommend Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia, The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, How The One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones, and Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi.

Happy reading,

Ms.Bjork