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As moving as it is riveting, Patricia Engel’s
Infinite Country is a one-of-a-kind telling of the timeless story of migration. The era-leaping novel combines international history the Colombian Conflict, the introduction of the DREAM Act with the personal stories of a family whose bond cannot be broken by geography. A late-night dash for freedom in the opening chapter is just the start of a border-crossing relay race that spans the Western Hemisphere. Engel’s pacing is breathless she covers three generations in under 200 pages but just as frequently gives way to heart- and time-stopping moments.
Infinite Country is poised to be one of the most stirring page-turners of the year.
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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.
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