![]() ![]() They have left behind the limitations of one country only to find themselves confined again. ![]() They fall into a cycle of seeking work and dodging immigration authorities. Faced with the latest violence in Bogotá and the birth of their son Nando, they overstay their visa. They plan to earn US dollars and return to Bogotá in six months.Ĭircumstances converge to rewrite Elena and Mauro’s decision. Mauro and Elena are young lovebirds with few prospects in chronically violent Colombia, “where it felt impossible to get ahead if one wasn’t born to a certain class, rich or corrupt, or talented and beautiful enough for fútbol and farándula.” In 2000, they head to Houston with their first daughter, Karina. ![]() This might be her only chance to reunite with her estranged mother and siblings in New Jersey.Īs Talia hitchhikes toward the capital, Engel unfolds her parents’ story. She’s determined to cross more than two hundred miles to get to Bogotá, where her father has her plane ticket to the United States. This deeply empathetic novel charts one family’s years-long struggle to reunite after immigration laws have wrenched them apart.Īs the book opens, fifteen-year-old Talia escapes from an all-girls’ correctional facility in the mountains of Colombia. ![]() Infinite Country is Colombian-American writer Patricia Engel’s masterful fourth book. ![]()
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