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Infinite Country by Patricia Engel | Thoughts

   Published : 2021   ||    Format : print   ||    Location : Colombia ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆   What was it about the country that kept everyone hostage to its fantasy? The previous month, on its own soil, an American man went to his job at a plant and gunned down fourteen coworkers, and last spring alone there were four different school shootings. A nation at war with itself, yet people still spoke of it as some kind of paradise.. Thoughts : Infinite Country follows two characters - young Talia, who at the beginning of this book, escapes a girl’s reform school in North Colombia so that she can make her previously booked flight to the US. Before she can do that, she needs to travel many miles to reach her father and get her ticket to the rest of her family. As we follow Talia’s treacherous journey south, we learn about how she ended up in the reform school in the first place and why half her family resides in the US. Infinite Country tells the story of her family through the other protagonist, El

Teaser Tuesdays -- Jan 12, 2009



Teaser Tuesdays

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
Grab your current read
Open to a random page
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page.


"I don't think I can have anything else," I told her. "All I know is that Nurse Ophelia mixes one of those in with the rest of my medications."

Nurse Roberta shook her head gently. "Zachary, you aren't on any medications. You haven't been for months. Not since last year. Didn't you know that?"


~ Pg. 57, Night Runner by Max Turner.


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Anonymous said…
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lisa-marie said…
Oh, yikes! That's Nurse Ophelia up to?
Tiina said…
That is a great teaser!

Greetings,
Tiina
Alayne said…
Great teaser, and the book looks fabulous. Mine is at The Crowded Leaf.
Anonymous said…
intriguing teaser!

here's mine!
http://myflutteringheart.blogspot.com/2010/01/teaser-tuesday-13.html

-Aimee
http:myflutteringheart.blogspot.com
Wrighty said…
Such creepy yellow eyes! Looks like a good one!
Athira said…
Wrighty, yeah the eyes definitely look creepy, and the cover art of the book is really good to stare at!