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Book World: Patricia Engel s Infinite Country focuses on the psychological pain of a family split apart
Jake Cline, The Washington Post
March 3, 2021
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By Patricia Engel
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Patricia Engel s novels don t begin so much as they crack open. Consider the first line of the Miami writer s 2010 debut, Vida : It was the year my uncle got arrested for killing his wife, and our family was the subject of all the town gossip. The start of 2016 s The Veins of the Ocean presents a man, maddened by his wife s infidelity, who takes their toddler son to a bridge, lifts the boy as high in the sky as he d go and throws him into Biscayne Bay. The child survives. The father is dead by the third page.