Book review infinite country5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() 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. How this family came to occupy two different countries, two different worlds, comes into focus like twists of a kaleidoscope. If she misses her flight, she might also miss her chance to finally be reunited with her family in the north. ![]() She urgently needs to get out and get back home to Bogota, where her father and a plane ticket to the United States are waiting for her. Talia 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. ![]() I often wonder if we are living the wrong life in the wrong country. 'A poignant and beautifully written tale' - Financial Times "A knockout of a novel.we predict will be viewed as one of 2021's best." - O, The Oprah Magazine ![]()
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