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
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- 100+ Reading Challenge: 24/100
- Awesome Author Challenge: 1/10
- Support your Local Library Challenge: 13/50
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- Audio Book Challenge: 2/12
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March Stats
Number of books: 9
Number of pages read: 2778
Number of Audio Books: 1
Hours listened to (completed audio books only): 9 hours, 1 minute
Re-reads: 2
New-to-me authors: 5
Male authors: 2
Female authors: 7
Book cleared from my physical shelf: 3
Books added to my physical shelf: 6
Number of books added anew to my TBR this month: 90
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Lynne, you should read it! It's awesome!!