The authenticity, the vulnerability and the depth in each of these characters was just so special. I have read epic 500+ pages family sagas that I’ve had much less reader-investment in. I cannot believe the amount of history and life and commentary that Engel packs into these 200 pages. Holy ever-loving goodness, this book was spectacular. And we come into the story with Talia, she is now 15 years old, fighting to escape a (maybe/maybe not warranted) stint in a youth correctional facility and travel across the Colombia to get to the airport in time to make her flight to reunite with her mother and siblings. Once there, they make the decision to overstay their tourist visa, to continue sending money back to Elena’s mother (Perla) in Colombia, and have two more children (Nando and Talia), When Mauro is deported, Elena makes the impossible chooses to send her youngest back to Colombia, knowing that she can return to the US when she’s older. Infinite Country follows Mauro and Elena who meet in Bogotá, Colombia and decide, after the birth of their first child (Karina), to the United States. Any other would be just as wrong or right.” “Eventually she’d understand that in matters of migration, even accidental, no option is more moral than anther.
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