INFINITE COUNTRY

u003cbu003eA REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK and INSTANT u003ciu003eNEW YORK TIMES u003c/iu003eBESTSELLERu003c/bu003eu003cbru003e u003cbru003eu003cbu003eWINNER OF THE 2021 NEW AMERICAN VOICES AWARD, LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDALu003c/bu003eu003cbu003e, AND u003c/bu003eu003cbu003eA NATIONAL ENDOWMENT OF THE ARTS “BIG READS” SELECTIONu003c/bu003eu003cbru003e u003cbru003eu003cbu003e“A profound, beautiful novel.” —u003ciu003ePeopleu003c/iu003e * “Poignant.” —u003ciu003eBuzzFeedu003c/iu003e * “A breathtaking story of the unimaginable prices paid for a better life.” —u003ciu003eEsquireu003c/iu003eu003c/bu003eu003cbru003e u003cbru003eu003cbu003eThis “heartbreaking portrait of a family dealing with the realities of migration and separation” (u003ciu003eTimeu003c/iu003e) u003c/bu003eu003cbu003e is “a sweeping love story and tragic drama [and] an authentic vision of what the American Dream looks like in a nationalistic country” (u003ciu003eElleu003c/iu003e).u003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003cbru003eu003ciu003eI often wonder if we are living the wrong life in the wrong country.u003c/iu003eu003cbru003e u003cbru003eTalia 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 Bogotá, 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.u003cbru003e u003cbru003eHow 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 Bogotá 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.u003cbru003e u003cbru003eAward-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. Rich with Bogotá urban life, steeped in Andean myth, and tense with the daily reality of the undocumented in America, u003ciu003eInfinite Countryu003c/iu003e “is as much an all-American story as it is a global one” (u003ciu003eBooklistu003c/iu003e, starred review).