![]() ![]() It’s short and fast paced and the story is very hard to put down. ![]() Infinite Country was one of my last few reads in 2021 and it was a stellar one. ![]() But their decision to ignore exit dates costs them dearly when Mauro is caught one day and then deported. She and her husband Mauro arrived in the US for the short term to make some money to fend their growing family. Elena and her two older children weren’t always undocumented. Infinite Country tells the story of her family through the other protagonist, Elena (Talia’s mother), an undocumented immigrant in the US. As we follow Talia’s treacherous journey south, we learn about how she ended up in the reform school in the first place and why half her family resides in the US. Before she can do that, she needs to travel many miles to reach her father and get her ticket to the rest of her family. ![]() Infinite Country follows two characters - young Talia, who at the beginning of this book, escapes a girl’s reform school in North Colombia so that she can make her previously booked flight to the US. A nation at war with itself, yet people still spoke of it as some kind of paradise. What was it about the country that kept everyone hostage to its fantasy? The previous month, on its own soil, an American man went to his job at a plant and gunned down fourteen coworkers, and last spring alone there were four different school shootings. ![]()
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